A Tennessee grandmother who spent six months in jail after facial recognition tech falsely linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation now wants compensation for what happened. Angela Lipps is suing the City of Fargo and a Fargo Police Department detective for $10 million over the incident, which led to the loss of her home, car, and dog.
In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the county jail in Tennessee as a fugitive from justice wanted in North Dakota.
You are gone for six months, what are they going to do? Leave the dog to starve to death? The local pound or some other animal rescue organization picked them up and (hopefully) re-homed them (or otherwise put them down)
Someone would have to know she has a dog. Presumably, the dog could be picked up by a family member or friend. The article doesn’t specify what happened.