In a ruling this week regarding the murder case *State v. Tybear Miles*, New Jersey's Supreme Court required prosecutors to disclose how facial recognition technology (FRT) was used in criminal investigations. The case stems from a 2021 fatal shooting in Jersey City, where a confidential informant who did not witness the incident identified two males by street names from CCTV footage. Police then ran a photo from an Instagram page through a facial recognition module, which identified defendant Tybear Miles as a potential match. The ruling notes that one FRT search "returned a list of ten possible 'matches' to the probe image of [the] defendant, with [the] defendant ranked as the eighth 'match' on the list of ten," while another search "returned a list of ten possible 'matches,' with five different images of [the] defendant ranked in the first five positions." Miles' sister and ex-girlfriend both identified Miles from other surveillance footage, but the ruling states "no witness identified defendant as the shooter." Justice Douglas Fasciale wrote that the state must produce "discovery identifying the FRT tools and materials the State used in its investigation," including the name and manufacturer of the software.