Maryland · Maryland Code — Criminal Procedure Article
Md. Code, Crim. Proc. § 2-503: (a) (1) A police officer or other employee or agent of a law enforcement agency may not, in the furtherance of a criminal investigation: (i) use facial recognition technology to investigate a crime other than the commission of or the attempt to commit: 1
What this law says, in plain English
This statute restricts when law enforcement may use facial recognition technology during criminal investigations, limiting its use to specific serious crimes and prohibiting certain practices like real-time identification or analyzing protected activity without reasonable suspicion.
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