{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-04T07:07:16.222Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"angelina-county","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":1,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2024-lufkin-texas-police-officer-flock-alpr-tracked-ex-girlfriend-sentenced-five-years","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'used a Flock license plate reader more than 10,000 times to track an ex-girlfriend, her family members and people she had relationships with, according to an arrest affidavit.'; 'The suspected unauthorized searches ranged from June 2024 to December 2025, according to the affidavit.'; 'Her license plate had been searched more than 10,000 times.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'on dozens of occasions from July 2024 through December 2025'; 'to track vehicles belonging to 11 people.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the arrest affidavit, a Lufkin police officer used the department's Flock license-plate-reader system more than 10,000 times to track an ex-girlfriend, her family members and people she had relationships with, in searches from June 2024 to December 2025; her plate alone was searched more than 10,000 times. The indictment, as reported, alleged he located vehicles belonging to 11 people on dozens of occasions from July 2024 through December 2025.","causal_attribution":"Arrest-affidavit and indictment allegations, later resolved by a guilty plea to misuse of official information."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'for over 25,000 license plate inquiries for non-law enforcement purposes with about 18,000 of those being for license plates associated with three people'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'About 18,000 of those inquiries were tied to license plates associated with three people.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'vehicle registration data for his former girlfriend, her family members, and individuals she had dated in the past and after their relationship ended.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The District Attorney's office says a Texas Rangers investigation found more than 25,000 license-plate inquiries on Flock for purposes unrelated to law enforcement, about 18,000 of them on plates associated with three people: the officer's former dating partner, her family members and people she has dated.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutor's account of the Rangers investigation."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'behavior prosecutors said continued after the relationship ended through his use of Flock and other law enforcement databases.'; 'lifetime protective order with an underlying basis of stalking for his former dating partner.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'coercive control in his previous dating relationship'; 'agreed to the issuance of a lifetime protective order on the basis of stalking for his former dating partner.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The District Attorney's office says interviews showed the officer used coercive control in the previous dating relationship and continued it after the relationship ended through Flock and other law-enforcement databases; he agreed to a lifetime protective order for his former dating partner on the basis of stalking.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutor's characterization; the defendant agreed to the protective order as part of the plea."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'had, at one point, threatened to find and kill someone she had a prior relationship with.'; 'had conducted searches for that prior partner’s license plate, according to the affidavit.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the affidavit, the ex-girlfriend told investigators the officer had once threatened to find and kill someone she had a prior relationship with, and he had searched that person's plate.","causal_attribution":"The ex-girlfriend's statement as recorded in the affidavit; not tested in court."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'pleaded guilty to 100 counts of misuse of official information'; 'was sentenced to five years in prison with credit for 42 days.'; 'The state also agreed to not pursue stalking charges concerning the incident.'; 'use of Flock cameras remains suspended as a direct result of this case.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'The judgment lists 100 counts of misuse of official information'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 30 September 2026 the officer pleaded guilty to 100 counts of misuse of official information and was sentenced to five years in prison; the state agreed not to pursue stalking charges, and the Lufkin Police Department's use of Flock cameras remains suspended because of the case.","causal_attribution":"Court outcome as reported from the DA, the judgment and the police department."}],"effects":[{"label":"a woman's vehicle was searched more than 10,000 times on police license-plate readers by her ex-boyfriend, a police officer, who also tracked her family and partners","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"prosecutors describe coercive control continued after the relationship through the searches, and a lifetime protective order was issued for her","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.ktre.com/2026/08/26/lufkin-officer-accused-searching-ex-girlfriends-plates-flock-cameras-more-than-10000-times/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-04 (KTRE, 26 August 2026). Reports the Texas Ranger's arrest affidavit.","independence_group":"lufkin-da-rangers"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ktre.com/2026/09/30/lufkin-officer-pleads-5-years-100-counts-related-flock-camera-misuse/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-04 (KTRE, 30 September 2026). Reports the plea and sentence with an interview of District Attorney Amy Wren and a Lufkin police statement. KBTX carries the same copy.","independence_group":"lufkin-da-rangers"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://lufkindailynews.com/news/community/former-lufkin-officer-sentenced-to-5-years-in-flock-camera-case/article_6e3a6c0f-235c-4b18-b5c8-f09f37e2cfc3.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-04 (The Lufkin Daily News, 1 October 2026). Cites the judgment of conviction, the indictment and the District Attorney's statement; treated as the same chain because it rests on the same prosecution records.","independence_group":"lufkin-da-rangers"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/lufkin-officer-gets-5-prison-191104550.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-04 (Tyler Morning Telegraph article syndicated on Yahoo News, 30 September 2026). Relays the District Attorney's news release. Yahoo's AI-generated key-points box was not used.","independence_group":"lufkin-da-rangers"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["Whether the officer approached or confronted the ex-girlfriend or others using the search results.","How many of the 11 people whose vehicles were located suffered harm beyond the searches.","Which other law-enforcement databases he used and what they returned."],"geography":{"basis":"The Lufkin Police Department's Flock system is in Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas, and the case was prosecuted in the 159th District Court in Lufkin (KTRE, Lufkin Daily News). The affidavit's witnesses confirmed vehicles searched were theirs; their residence is not otherwise stated.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a contextual case (made_claim_about) consistent with earlier officer-misuse rows for Flock license-plate readers: a Lufkin police officer pleaded guilty to 100 counts of misuse of official information after the Angelina County District Attorney and the Texas Rangers found he had searched the department's Flock readers to track his former girlfriend, her family and partners (KTRE, Lufkin Daily News, Tyler Morning Telegraph). All sources rest on the same prosecution records. The officer and the former girlfriend are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Angelina County District Attorney states that a Texas Rangers investigation found the officer used the department's Flock system for more than 25,000 non-law-enforcement license-plate inquiries, and he pleaded guilty to 100 counts of misuse of official information tied to that use (KTRE, Lufkin Daily News, Tyler Morning Telegraph). The automated readers produced the vehicle-location records about the people searched; the searches and their purpose were the officer's own acts. He also used other law-enforcement databases, which are not treated as AI. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Lufkin, Texas: a police officer is sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to 100 counts of misuse of official information for searching the department's Flock license-plate readers to track his ex-girlfriend, her family and people she dated between mid-2024 and December 2025","summary":"A Lufkin Police Department officer of 11 years pleaded guilty on 30 September 2026 to 100 counts of misuse of official information and was sentenced to five years in prison, according to the Angelina County District Attorney as reported by KTRE, the Lufkin Daily News and the Tyler Morning Telegraph. A Texas Rangers investigation found he ran more than 25,000 license-plate inquiries on the department's Flock Safety readers for purposes unrelated to law enforcement, about 18,000 of them on plates associated with three people. Prosecutors say he used Flock and other law-enforcement databases to gather the identities, home addresses, plates and vehicle registrations of his former girlfriend, her family members and people she had dated. His arrest affidavit, reported by KTRE in August, says her plate alone was searched more than 10,000 times between June 2024 and December 2025, and that she told investigators he had once threatened to find and kill a former partner of hers. He agreed to a lifetime protective order for her on the basis of stalking, and the state dropped separate stalking charges. The audit began after USA Today asked the department about an officer's Flock use in August 2026. Lufkin has suspended its use of the cameras.","incidentDate":"2024-06-01","incidentEndDate":"2025-12-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-26","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader system used by the Lufkin Police Department, which the officer searched to track his ex-girlfriend's vehicle and the vehicles of her family and partners","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Prosecutors say a Lufkin police officer used the department's Flock license-plate readers and other police databases to track his former girlfriend, her family and people she dated for about 18 months, continuing coercive control after their relationship ended; he pleaded guilty to 100 counts of misuse of official information and agreed to a lifetime protective order for her (Angelina County District Attorney, as reported by KTRE and the Lufkin Daily News).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":11,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"At least 11 people: the Lufkin Daily News reports that the officer pleaded guilty to misusing official information tied to his use of the department's Flock system to track vehicles belonging to 11 people, and that prosecutors alleged he located vehicles belonging to 11 people from July 2024 through December 2025. The arrest affidavit reported by KTRE describes six of them: the former girlfriend (her plate searched more than 10,000 times), two of her family members, two men linked to her and a woman who had a relationship with the officer in early 2025. Other people whose plates were among the 25,000 inquiries are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-TX","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.ktre.com/2026/09/30/lufkin-officer-pleads-5-years-100-counts-related-flock-camera-misuse/","primarySourceLabel":"KTRE, 30 September 2026: Former Lufkin officer pleads to 5 years for 100 counts related to Flock camera misuse","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:06.658676+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:06.658676+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","stalking","coercive-control","texas","lufkin","angelina-county","criminal-charges","guilty-plea","made-claim-about"]}]}