DOJ is looking into facial recognition for agent devices to identify prisoners
The U.S. Marshals Service, charged with moving prisoners around the nation, is looking into building a facial recognition tool into its agents’ smart devices to help identifying prisoners during transfer. The agency released a request for quotes seeking a software development kit (SDK) that will give developers a code base to begin constructing a tool that will be integrated with separate, existing in-house apps built by the Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons.
Ideally, the final product will work with existing systems and allow marshals to take a picture of a prisoner, match that against an image gallery and get relevant information, including origin and destination, medical information, security concerns and, a prisoner’s identity.