Fargo City Leaders Prepare for Possible Lawsuit over Mistaken Identity

Woman Claims Faulty Facial Recognition Software Led to Her Arrest and 5 Months in Jail

Sympathy and some cash were raised March 16 for a 50-year-old woman who spent five months in jail after she said she was wrongly accused in a bank fraud case by police who identified her as a suspect using facial recognition software. Meanwhile, local authorities say the investigation of Angela Lipps of Elizabethton, Tennessee, isn’t over. “Angela is still a person of interest,” Tim Mahoney, mayor of Fargo, North Dakota, told The Epoch Times. Li…

Fargo city leaders prepare for possible lawsuit over mistaken identity

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo city leaders are preparing for a potential lawsuit from Angela Lipps. The 50-year-old Tennessee woman was mistakenly identified as a suspect in a bank fraud case in Fargo. She was jailed for nearly six months. Police used facial recognition software and the AI system mistakenly flagged Lipps. She says she has lived in north-central Tennessee her entire life and never set foot in North Dakota, until she was transferred …

West Fargo man creates GoFundMe for Tennessee woman jailed in North Dakota after facial recognition error

By: Ethan Kramer WEST FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) – A West Fargo man set up a GoFundMe for a Tennessee woman who spent more than five months in jail after facial recognition software misidentified her as a suspect in a Fargo bank fraud case. Angela Lipps, 50, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, said U.S. Marshals arrested her at gunpoint on July 14, 2025 while she was babysitting four children. She said investigators used facial recognition software …

Grandmother spends 6-months in jail after AI wrongly identifies her for bank fraud in a state she's never been to

Watch Louder with Crowder every weekday at 11:00 AM Eastern, only on Rumble Premium!🚨 Police stormed a grandmother’s home at gunpoint after facial recognition software said she committed a crime.There was just one problem...Angela Lipps was 1,200 miles away in Tennessee when it happened.Bank records proved it.Still, she spent over five months in jail… pic.twitter.com/vUA2E0VQJG— Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 (@VoicesUnheard) March 14, 2026 The problem w…

Grandmother spent six months in jail after AI facial recognition misidentified her