Overview
- Fargo police said in March 2026 they will stop using facial recognition after the case exposed serious mistakes.
- Investigators had arrested Angela Lipps in July 2025 based on a Clearview AI match linking her to a Fargo bank fraud even though she had never been to North Dakota.
- Prosecutors dismissed the fraud counts on December 23rd, 2025 after her bank records placed her in Tennessee, and she walked free on December 24th.
- A breakdown in communication kept North Dakota from seeing that Tennessee had pulled back an extradition request, which kept her jailed for months.
- Lipps says she lost her home, car and even her dog during confinement and is raising money to rebuild through a GoFundMe page.