The Innocence Project has made several proposals to improve the accuracy of eyewitness identifications. These proposals include:

• Blind administration: This involves ensuring that the person administering the lineup or photo array does not know who the suspect is, to prevent them from unintentionally influencing the witness.

• Proper use of fillers: Fillers are the people or objects included in a lineup or photo array who are not the suspect. It is important to ensure that the fillers match the witnesss description of the perpetrator, to prevent the suspect from standing out.

• Proper instructions to the witness: The witness should be informed that the perpetrator may or may not be in the lineup or photo array, to prevent them from feeling pressured to make an identification.

• Witness confidence statements: After making an identification, the witness should be asked to provide a statement about their confidence in their identification. This can help prevent wrongful convictions by alerting investigators to cases where the witness may not be certain of their identification.

The Innocence Project has also advocated for broader criminal justice reforms to reduce the risk of eyewitness misidentification. These include allowing expert testimony on eyewitness identification, mandating the preservation of biological evidence, and providing statutory access to post-conviction DNA testing.