CAFU - Facial Recognition Statistics

Facial recognition requests are presented to the WI DMV Compliance, Audit and Fraud Unit
(CAFU) solely from the Wisconsin Department of Justice (WIDOJ). WIDOJ coordinates all law
enforcement entities (state and federal) requests for facial recognition. CAFU processes all
requests provided by WIDOJ and provides results that are in turn provided to the requesting
jurisdiction in compliance with all appropriate laws and statutes related to facial recognition in
Wisconsin.
CAFU has been compiling data on these requests since 2014, see below. The types of cases for
these requests are captured for 2016.

YEAR
2014
2015
2016
2017

# of Cases
# of suspect/victim
photos received
# of matches found
Success Rate

NUMBER OF FR
REQUESTS
51
152
238
166*
*As of 8/3/17

Crime
Other
116

# by Case Type
Child
Identity
Cyber Missing
Enticement/Exploitation
Theft
Trafficking Crime Person Total
30
7
25
12
3
193

142
17
12%

39
11
28%

9
2
22%

25
9
36%

13
4
31%

3
0
0%

231
43
19%

FR REQUESTS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT - 2016

08/12/17 prepared by Susan Schilz
Wisconsin DOT

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