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Clearview-type facial recognition

Face

Last reviewed: 2026-10-27Legal review: unverifiedCapability or investigative question
Evidence rule

This page is public-interest research. An argument grade is not a court finding. A watchdog page describes the device. It is not proof a Nevada agency bought it or turned a feature on. A product description is not a Nevada practice. Agencies are not merged: the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Clark County School District, the City of Reno, and the Nevada Department of Public Safety stay separate. A hotlist hit is not a confirmed crime. Legal review of this page is unverified.

What it does

Facial recognition of the Clearview type compares a probe photo with a large gallery of faces scraped from the public web, and returns possible matches. Other face systems use a government gallery instead. This card is the scraped-gallery type. A match is a candidate, not an identification, until a person reviews it. False matches are part of what EFF describes, especially for Black people, other minorities, women, and young people.

Privacy watchdog concerns

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation. Face Recognition. EFF says face recognition identifies or verifies a person from a photo, a video, or a live camera, including against mugshots and driver photos, and that false matches fall hardest on Black people, other minorities, women, and young people. EFF names Clearview AI as a vendor that scraped photos. This is EFF’s claim. It is not a finding that a Nevada agency bought a face system.

Constitutional issues

Unresolved question

Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18

Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency

Clearview-type facial recognition: No Nevada agency, vendor, or date is documented. A policy title on this site is not the deployment. A false match would raise a due-process question only after a person was stopped or charged because of a match, which is not a fact in this build. Carpenter does not decide a face match. No categorical ban is stated here.

Statutes attached to read, not findings.

  • NRS Chapter 239. Nevada public-records law is the route to ask for contracts, policies, and logs. Citing it is not a finding that a surveillance practice is unlawful.
  • Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18. State search-and-seizure provision. This page does not quote the section. No section anchor was verified. It is listed only where a search question is actually implicated.
  • 42 U.S.C. § 1983. A civil remedy for a deprivation of federal rights under color of state law. It is not a warrant statute, and it does not itself make a surveillance practice unlawful.

Nevada use

Not documented on this page. The LVMPD policy title is not a deployment, and the PDF is not attached.

Investigative question. The policy title is identified. The PDF is not attached. No deployment is confirmed. Vigilant is not this vendor.

See also: DMV photo matching; Mugshot comparison; Real-time face scanning; Biometric fusion of face with other records

Policy page. Policy title identified on this site. The source PDF is not attached. This is not a confirmed deployment.

Next record

Clearview-type facial recognition: Use the policy page as a title index only, then request the contract.

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