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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":"2025-perry-georgia-police-officer-flock-alpr-repeated-plate-searches-co-workers-arrested","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'to look up a single license plate more than 4,000 times over a 16-month span'; 'That was one of six license plates she repeatedly searched'; 'Two of them were registered to cars owned by her co-workers'; 'another belonged to her daughter’s father'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"USA TODAY's analysis of Flock audit logs found that the officer looked up a single license plate more than 4,000 times over a 16-month span while employed by the Perry Police Department; it was one of six plates she repeatedly searched, two registered to cars owned by her co-workers and another belonging to her daughter's father.","causal_attribution":"USA TODAY's own analysis of audit logs; not independently replicated."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'left the Perry Police Department in April 2025'; 'as a school resource officer at a local high school'; 'continued making searches from her Perry police-issued Flock account for at least four months after she left, audit logs show'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She left the Perry Police Department in April 2025 to work for the Houston County Sheriff's Office as a school resource officer at a local high school and continued making searches from her Perry police-issued Flock account for at least four months after she left.","causal_attribution":"USA TODAY's reading of the audit logs."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Perry Police Department was not aware of the frequency with which'; 'After receiving your inquiry, we immediately began reviewing'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Perry police chief told USA TODAY in a 19 August 2026 email that, before the newspaper's inquiry, the department had not been aware of how often she was using Flock to search the plates, and that it had begun reviewing her Flock activity.","causal_attribution":"The chief's statement as quoted by USA TODAY."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'suspended her without pay on Aug. 17'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'was suspended without pay Monday pending termination after the sheriff’s office said an internal audit found she misused Flock Safety license plate reader data'; 'referred the matter to the district attorney’s office for criminal prosecution'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Houston County Sheriff's Office suspended her without pay, pending termination, on 17 August 2026 after an internal audit that it said found she had misused Flock license-plate-reader data, and referred the matter to the district attorney's office for prosecution.","causal_attribution":"The sheriff's office statement, relayed by 41NBC and USA TODAY; both rest on the sheriff, so this is not independent corroboration."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She was arrested two days later on charges of misusing a license plate reader system.'; 'A plea has not been entered in her case.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She was arrested on 19 August 2026 on charges of misusing a license plate reader system; no plea had been entered at the time of USA TODAY's report.","causal_attribution":"USA TODAY's report; no charging document was inspected and the allegations are unproven."}],"effects":[{"label":"their car plates repeatedly searched on the Flock license-plate-reader system by a police officer they knew","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/08/28/flock-camera-investigation-police-arrested-fired-surveillance/91383586007/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 from the eu.usatoday.com edition of the same article (28 August 2026). Rests on USA TODAY's own analysis of Flock audit logs and on statements from the Perry police chief and the Houston County sheriff.","independence_group":"usatoday-flock-analysis"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.41nbc.com/houston-county-sro-suspended-flock-data-misuse/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; 41NBC/WMGT, 17 August 2026). Relays the Houston County Sheriff's Office; does not mention the Perry searches or the people whose plates were searched. The suspension date in USA TODAY also comes from the sheriff, so the two are not independent on that point.","independence_group":"houston-county-sheriff-statements"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","work","relationships"],"unknowns":["The start and end months of the 16-month span; the first search date is not stated.","Whose plate was searched more than 4,000 times, and who owned the other plates.","Whether any of the people whose plates were searched has described an effect on them.","Which agency made the arrest, the exact charges, the court and any outcome."],"geography":{"basis":"The officer worked for the Perry Police Department and then the Houston County Sheriff's Office in Georgia (USA TODAY). The co-workers' residence is not stated; affected_person_countries US rests on their cars being searched on a Perry police Flock account and on the co-workers working with her in Georgia. The arrest and charges are in Georgia.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional privacy and safety case, consistent with the held Flock officer-misuse rows: USA TODAY's analysis of Flock audit logs shows a Perry, Georgia police officer repeatedly searched plates including two co-workers' cars and her daughter's father's, and she was suspended and arrested. The automated readers generated the plate-read records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. Neither the officer nor the people whose plates were searched is named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"USA TODAY says the officer looked up the plates on the Flock license-plate-reader system through a Perry police-issued Flock account, as shown in audit logs. The plate-read records about the cars were the system's output; the searches are recorded as the officer's own acts. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Perry, Georgia: a former police officer, by then a sheriff's school resource officer, is arrested; USA TODAY's analysis of Flock logs says she searched one plate more than 4,000 times and repeatedly searched co-workers' plates","summary":"USA TODAY's analysis of Flock Safety license-plate-reader audit logs found that an officer of the Perry Police Department in Georgia looked up a single license plate more than 4,000 times over 16 months. It was one of six plates she repeatedly searched; two were registered to cars owned by her co-workers and another belonged to her daughter's father. She left the department in April 2025 to become a school resource officer with the Houston County Sheriff's Office and kept searching from her Perry police-issued Flock account for at least four months afterwards, according to the logs. The Perry police chief told USA TODAY the department had not known how often she searched the plates before the newspaper asked. The sheriff's office suspended her without pay on 17 August 2026, and she was arrested two days later on charges of misusing a license plate reader system.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-28","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader system, searched through a Perry Police Department Flock account issued to the officer (USA TODAY analysis of audit logs)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to USA TODAY's analysis of Flock audit logs, a police officer repeatedly searched the car plates of two co-workers and her daughter's father, among six plates, including one plate more than 4,000 times over 16 months; she is charged with misusing a license plate reader system.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"USA TODAY says the officer repeatedly searched six plates, of which two were registered to cars owned by her co-workers and one belonged to her daughter's father: three described people. The owners of the other three plates, including whether the plate searched more than 4,000 times is one of the three described, are not stated. documented_minimum 3.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-GA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/08/28/flock-camera-investigation-police-arrested-fired-surveillance/91383586007/","primarySourceLabel":"USA TODAY, 28 August 2026: Our Flock camera investigation sparks police firings, arrests","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:21.063622+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:21.063622+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","co-worker","georgia","perry","houston-county","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2026-cheektowaga-new-york-police-dispatchers-flock-alpr-searched-fellow-employee-plate-suspended","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'searched for a department employee'; 'license plate on their Flock ALPR system over'; 'That employee was not aware that this was taking place, according to Coons.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'an internal audit showed three public safety dispatchers used the system to search for another employee'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'misusing the Flock cameras in the automated license plate reader system to track without'; 'the movements of a fellow employee'; 'over a period of months'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'have suspended three of their own after a months-long investigation into misuse of Flock cameras to track a fellow employee'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Three public safety dispatchers of the Cheektowaga Police Department searched for a department employee's license plate in the department's Flock license-plate-reader system over a period of months, and the employee was not aware the searches were taking place; an internal audit found the searches.","causal_attribution":"The account comes from the chief and the department's press release; every outlet relays that one origin, so it stays reported. The searches are the department's own audit finding."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The behavior stopped, and an intensive investigation followed to determine the scope of the policy violation and whether the public was targeted.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The department said the behavior stopped and that an investigation followed to determine the scope of the policy violation and whether the public was targeted.","causal_attribution":"The department's press release as quoted by Spectrum News."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The three dispatchers were issued suspensions for multiple unnamed policy violations.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'punishment for multiple policy violations'; 'was a dispatcher at the time of the alleged misuse of these Flock cameras'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The three were suspended for multiple policy violations; one of them, a dispatcher at the time of the searches, is now a police officer.","causal_attribution":"Suspensions from the department's statement; the current role of one of the three from WKBW's own reporting."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the District Attorney’s Office was consulted during the process'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'they have consulted with the Erie County District Attorney'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'police are close to filing disciplinary sanctions against the three employees'; 'Those sanctions have not yet been filed.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The Erie County District Attorney's Office was consulted; WKBW reported, citing sources, that disciplinary sanctions against the three were close to being filed but had not yet been filed.","causal_attribution":"DA consultation from the department; pending sanctions from WKBW's unnamed sources."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'We have taken steps to tighten policies and procedures to help prevent future incidents.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'has taken steps to tighten policies and procedures around the system'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The department said it had taken steps to tighten policies and procedures around the system.","causal_attribution":"The department's statement."}],"effects":[{"label":"vehicle's license plate searched by three police dispatchers in the department's license-plate-reader system over a period of months, without the employee's knowledge","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/3-cheektowaga-police-dispatchers-suspended-195451268.html","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 from Yahoo News's syndicated copy of WGRZ's 30 September 2026 article (Ian Caskie); the wgrz.com original answered 403 from this host. Reports Chief Coons's statements.","independence_group":"cheektowaga-pd-statement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2026/10/01/3-cheektowaga-police-dispatchers-suspended-for-flock-camera-misuse","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; Spectrum News Staff, 1 October 2026). Quotes the department's press release.","independence_group":"cheektowaga-pd-statement"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.wkbw.com/news/i-team/cheektowaga-police-officer-dispatchers-accused-of-misusing-flock-cameras-to-track-fellow-employee","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; Ed Drantch, WKBW 7 News I-Team, 30 September 2026). Quotes the department's statement and adds details from unnamed sources, including the pending sanctions and the current role of one of the three.","independence_group":"wkbw-i-team-sources"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/law-enforcement-executives-discuss-flock-232611317.html","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 from Yahoo News's syndicated copy of WGRZ's 1 October 2026 follow-up (Ron Plants); the wgrz.com original answered 403. Restates the case from the chief's announcement and reports the consultation with the district attorney.","independence_group":"cheektowaga-pd-statement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["When the searches took place and how many there were.","Why the dispatchers searched the employee's plate and what the searches returned.","How the employee learned of the searches and whether they experienced further consequences.","The length of the suspensions and the final disciplinary sanctions.","Whether the district attorney will bring any charge."],"geography":{"basis":"The dispatchers worked for the Cheektowaga Police Department in Erie County, New York, and searched its Flock system, which covers the town (WGRZ, WKBW). The searched person is a department employee; their residence is not stated, and affected_person_countries US rests on their employment with the New York department. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a contextual case (made_claim_about) consistent with the held Flock officer-misuse rows, including the Pasadena, Texas, fellow-officer case: the Cheektowaga police chief and department say an internal audit found three dispatchers had searched a fellow employee's license plate in the Flock system over a period of months without that employee's knowledge, and the three were suspended. No criminal charge is reported. The three staff members are not named here, and no source identifies the searched employee.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Cheektowaga police chief and the department's press release state that an internal audit found three dispatchers had searched a department employee's license plate on the department's Flock ALPR system over a period of months (WGRZ, Spectrum News). The automated readers record license plates at locations around the town (WKBW); the records retrieved about the employee's vehicle are the system's output, and the searches and their purpose are recorded as the dispatchers' own acts. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Cheektowaga, New York: three police department dispatchers searched a fellow employee's license plate in the Flock license-plate-reader system over a period of months without that employee's knowledge; suspended in September 2026","summary":"According to Cheektowaga Police Chief Brian Coons, an internal audit found that three public safety dispatchers of the Cheektowaga Police Department in New York had searched for a department employee's license plate in the department's Flock license-plate-reader system over a period of months, and the employee was not aware of the searches. The department said the behavior stopped and an investigation followed to determine the scope of the policy violation and whether the public was targeted. On 30 September 2026 the chief announced that the three, one of whom has since become a police officer, had been suspended for multiple policy violations. The Erie County District Attorney's Office was consulted; no criminal charge has been reported, and WKBW reported that further disciplinary sanctions had not yet been filed.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-30","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader (ALPR) system of the Cheektowaga Police Department, New York, with almost 30 cameras in the town, searched by department dispatchers (Cheektowaga police statement, as reported by WGRZ, Spectrum News and WKBW)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Cheektowaga police chief and department, three police dispatchers searched a fellow employee's license plate in the department's Flock license-plate-reader system over a period of months without that employee's knowledge; the three were suspended for policy violations.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the department employee whose license plate the three dispatchers searched (WGRZ, Spectrum News, WKBW). Exact 1. The department said its investigation examined whether the public was targeted; no source reports its finding or any other person searched.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-NY","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/3-cheektowaga-police-dispatchers-suspended-195451268.html","primarySourceLabel":"WGRZ via Yahoo News, 30 September 2026: 3 Cheektowaga police dispatchers suspended for misuse of Flock cameras","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:10.316607+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:10.316607+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","new-york","cheektowaga","erie-county","internal-discipline","workplace","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2026-hall-county-georgia-investigator-flock-alpr-tracked-person-known-fired","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'used the Flock system multiple times to find the whereabouts of a person she knew'; 'Officials said the searches were personal and had no connection to a legitimate law enforcement purpose.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'is accused of using the system to track a person “known to her.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'repeatedly used the agency’s Flock Safety system to track the whereabouts of someone she knew for personal reasons'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The sheriff's office Internal Affairs Unit determined that the investigator used the Flock system multiple times to find the whereabouts of a person the investigator knew, and officials said the searches were personal and had no connection to a legitimate law enforcement purpose.","causal_attribution":"The sheriff's office's internal finding, relayed by three outlets; no audit record was inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was terminated Wednesday, Sept. 2.'; 'Peace Officer Standards and Training Council and the Hall County Solicitor'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The press release did not mention any criminal charges.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The investigator was terminated on 2 September 2026, the third investigator fired during the agency's Flock audit, and the violations were referred to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council and the Hall County Solicitor's Office; the press release did not mention criminal charges.","causal_attribution":"The sheriff's office statement as relayed; ANF reports the referral to the POST Council only, FOX 5 adds the solicitor's office."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ultimately reviewed 758 Flock searches and flagged 85 as anomalous or suspicious'; 'reducing authorized users from 124 to 24'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"By 30 September 2026 the sheriff's office had reviewed 758 Flock searches and flagged 85 as anomalous or suspicious, and had reduced authorized users of the system from 124 to 24.","causal_attribution":"Now Georgia's account of sheriff's office statements; context for the audit that found this case."}],"effects":[{"label":"whereabouts searched repeatedly in police license-plate-reader records by a sheriff's investigator who knew them, for personal reasons","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/3rd-hall-county-investigator-fired-over-flock-camera-misuse","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team; 2 September 2026). Relays the sheriff's office statement.","independence_group":"hcso-2026-09-02-release"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/09/02/hall-county-deputy-fired-after-being-accused-misusing-flock-cameras/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; Atlanta News First staff; 2 September 2026). Relays the sheriff's office press release of that day.","independence_group":"hcso-2026-09-02-release"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://nowgeorgia.com/another-hall-county-investigator-fired-for-misuse-of-flock-safety-system/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; 2 September 2026). Relays the sheriff's office statement.","independence_group":"hcso-2026-09-02-release"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://nowgeorgia.com/breaking-former-hall-investigator-arrested-on-flock-misuse-oath-charges/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; 30 September 2026). An article on a different investigator's arrest that recaps this termination and gives audit totals from sheriff's office statements and records.","independence_group":"nowgeorgia-hall-audit-2026-09-30"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Who the person searched was and their relationship to the investigator.","When and how many times the searches were run.","Whether the person knew of the searches or experienced further consequences.","Whether criminal charges or POST Council action followed."],"geography":{"basis":"The investigator worked for the Hall County Sheriff's Office in Georgia and searched that agency's Flock system (sheriff's office release). The person searched is not identified and their residence is not stated, so affected_person_countries is left unknown. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional privacy case, consistent with the held Flock officer-misuse rows: the Hall County Sheriff's Office states that its Internal Affairs Unit found an investigator repeatedly used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system to find the whereabouts of a person the investigator knew, and fired the investigator. The finding is an internal determination; no charges are reported. The automated readers generated the location records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. Neither the investigator nor the person searched is named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Hall County Sheriff's Office states that its Internal Affairs Unit found the investigator used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system multiple times to find the whereabouts of a person the investigator knew. The plate-read records used to locate the person were the system's output, and the misuse was a human act. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Hall County, Georgia: a sheriff's investigator was fired in September 2026 after an internal audit found the investigator had repeatedly used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system to find the whereabouts of a person known to them","summary":"The Hall County Sheriff's Office in Georgia fired a property crimes investigator on 2 September 2026 after its Internal Affairs Unit determined that the investigator had used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system multiple times to find the whereabouts of a person the investigator knew. The sheriff's office said the searches were personal and had no connection to a legitimate law enforcement purpose. It was the third investigator fired during an audit of the agency's Flock use, and the sheriff's office said the violations would be referred to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council and the Hall County Solicitor's Office. The press release did not mention criminal charges, and the person searched was not identified.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-02","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader camera system operated by the Hall County Sheriff's Office, Georgia, searched by the investigator through agency access (sheriff's office release)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Hall County Sheriff's Office, an investigator repeatedly used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system to find the whereabouts of a person the investigator knew, for personal reasons and without a law enforcement purpose.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, described by the sheriff's office as a person the investigator knew, whose whereabouts were searched (FOX 5; Atlanta News First; Now Georgia). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-GA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/3rd-hall-county-investigator-fired-over-flock-camera-misuse","primarySourceLabel":"FOX 5 Atlanta, 2 September 2026: 3rd Hall County investigator fired over Flock camera misuse","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:25:38.474764+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:25:38.474764+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","location-tracking","georgia","hall-county","gainesville","internal-audit","termination","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2026-mooresville-north-carolina-police-officer-flock-alpr-tracked-boyfriends-ex-wife-charged","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'conducting an audit of its Flock license plate reader system when it discovered'; 'accessed the system 31 times for personal use'; 'to find information and track her boyfriend'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'logged in 31 times to track and gather information on her boyfriend'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'an audit the department conducts each month of the Flock camera system'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'allegedly misusing the department’s Flock safety camera system for personal gain'","relation":"context","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"A Mooresville police officer accessed the department's Flock license-plate-reader system 31 times for personal use, to find information about and track her boyfriend's ex-wife; the department found the searches during an audit of the system.","causal_attribution":"The account rests on the police chief's press conference and the department's statement; all outlets relay that one origin, so it stays reported. The charge has not been tried."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'At least twice she accessed these cameras while she was off-duty'; 'listed most of the 31 trackings as motor vehicle infractions'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'listed 29 of her 31 searches as'; 'with the other two logged as burglary or robbery'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'is accused of inventing reasons for the search, such as traffic violations, burglary or robbery'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'was also not truthful about why she accessed the LPR data'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the chief, she accessed the cameras at least twice while off duty and entered false reasons for the searches, listing most of them (29 of 31, per WBTV) as motor vehicle infractions and the rest as burglary or robbery; the department said she was not truthful about why she accessed the data.","causal_attribution":"The chief's and the department's account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was charged Aug. 5, 2026, with accessing computers, a misdemeanor'; 'Court records show she was released on a $5,000 bond.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'was arrested while on duty, charged with computer access violations, and given a $5,000 secured bond'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'was arrested and charged Wednesday with accessing computers'; 'is due in court on Aug. 27'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She was arrested on 5 August 2026 and charged with accessing computers, a misdemeanor, and was released on a $5,000 bond; ABC News reported a court date of 27 August 2026.","causal_attribution":"Charge from the department's statement; bond from court records as reported by WLOS. No court record was inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'who was hired in January 2025'; 'remains employed by the department as of this writing'; 'any final decision regarding her termination is up to human resources'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"WBTV reported on 7 August 2026 that the officer, hired in January 2025, remained employed by the department and that the chief said any termination decision rested with human resources.","causal_attribution":"WBTV's report as of 7 August; later reports headlined as a dismissal could not be read."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'looking at 10 other potential misuse cases'; 'will be required to attach a case number to show why they are using the cameras'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'three “look like they could be problematic”'; 'Officers must now link an active case number and answer additional prompts every time they use the system.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The chief said the department was reviewing 10 other potential misuse cases, three of which looked problematic, and that officers must now link a case number to each search and answer additional prompts.","causal_attribution":"The chief's statements at the press conference."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Any misuse is unacceptable and responsible technology should help bring it to light'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Flock Safety said in a statement that any misuse is unacceptable.","causal_attribution":"Flock Safety's statement to ABC News."}],"effects":[{"label":"movements allegedly tracked by a police officer through 31 searches of police license-plate-reader records","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://abcnews.com/US/officer-allegedly-flock-license-plate-cameras-track-boyfriends/story?id=135418955","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 6 August 2026). Reports the chief's press conference of Wednesday 5 August. ABC11 and WWAY carry the same text and are not cited separately.","independence_group":"mooresville-pd-chief-press-conference"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://wlos.com/news/local/north-carolina-police-officer-charged-license-plate-reader-misuse-mooresville-state-budget-program-expanded-roads","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; Kelly Doty, WLOS, 7 August 2026). Relays the Mooresville Police Department's statement and the ABC News quote of the chief; adds a court-record detail (bond).","independence_group":"mooresville-pd-chief-press-conference"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://lawandcrime.com/crime/i-dont-think-we-are-done-yet-cop-allegedly-used-license-plate-reader-cameras-to-spy-on-boyfriends-ex-wife-more-than-30-times-and-she-might-not-be-the-only-one/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; David Harris, Law&Crime, 7 August 2026). Its own account of the chief's press conference.","independence_group":"mooresville-pd-chief-press-conference"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.wbtv.com/2026/08/07/another-log-fire-mooresville-chief-slams-officer-after-alleged-flock-camera-misuse-arrest/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; WBTV, 7 August 2026). Its own account of the chief's 5 August press conference, with the search-reason breakdown and employment status as of that day.","independence_group":"mooresville-pd-chief-press-conference"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.wbtv.com/2026/08/06/mooresville-police-officer-accused-misusing-flock-safety-cameras/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; WBTV, 6 August 2026). Arrest-day report of the chief's statements and resident reactions.","independence_group":"mooresville-pd-chief-press-conference"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["When the 31 searches took place (WBTV reports the officer was hired in January 2025) and what they returned.","Whether the ex-wife was told of the searches or experienced further consequences.","The outcome of the 27 August 2026 court date and of the charge.","Whether the officer was later dismissed; reports headlined as a dismissal (QC News, NewsNation) could not be read.","The findings of the review of 10 other potential misuse cases."],"geography":{"basis":"The officer served with the Mooresville Police Department in North Carolina and searched its Flock system; she was booked into the Iredell County Jail and charged in North Carolina (ABC News, WLOS). The ex-wife's residence is not stated; affected_person_countries US rests on the ex-wife's movements being tracked through the Mooresville department's North Carolina camera system.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a contextual case (made_claim_about) consistent with the held Flock officer-misuse rows: the Mooresville police chief says an officer searched the department's Flock license-plate-reader system 31 times to track her boyfriend's ex-wife, and she is charged with accessing computers. The tracking account is an allegation. The officer is not named here, and no source names the ex-wife.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Mooresville police chief says the officer accessed the department's Flock license-plate-reader system 31 times to find information about and track her boyfriend's ex-wife, and the department found the searches in its audit of that system (ABC News, WBTV, Law&Crime, WLOS). The automated readers capture vehicle information such as plates, car types and dates (ABC News); the location records retrieved about the ex-wife are the system's output, and the searches and their purpose are recorded as the officer's own acts. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Mooresville, North Carolina: a police officer is accused of searching the department's Flock license-plate-reader system 31 times to track her boyfriend's ex-wife; charged in August 2026 with accessing computers","summary":"According to Mooresville Police Chief Ron Campurciani, a monthly audit of the department's Flock license-plate-reader system found that one of its officers had accessed the system 31 times for personal use, to find information about and track the movements of her boyfriend's ex-wife. The chief said she accessed the cameras at least twice while off duty and logged most of the searches as motor vehicle infractions, and the department said she was not truthful about why she accessed the data. She was arrested on 5 August 2026 and charged with accessing computers, a misdemeanor, and court records show she was released on a $5,000 bond. The chief said the department was reviewing 10 other potential misuse cases and now requires officers to link an active case number to every search. The charge is an allegation.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-06","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader camera system of the Mooresville Police Department, North Carolina, which the officer searched through her police access (police chief, as reported by ABC News, WBTV and Law&Crime)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Mooresville police chief, a police officer used the department's Flock license-plate-reader system 31 times to find information about and track her boyfriend's ex-wife; the officer is charged with a misdemeanor and the allegation has not been tried.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the boyfriend's ex-wife, whom the chief says the officer tracked through the Flock system (ABC News, WBTV, Law&Crime). Exact 1. The 10 other potential misuse cases under review are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-NC","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://abcnews.com/US/officer-allegedly-flock-license-plate-cameras-track-boyfriends/story?id=135418955","primarySourceLabel":"ABC News, 6 August 2026: Officer allegedly used Flock license plate cameras to track boyfriend's ex-wife: Police chief","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:25:34.723799+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:25:34.723799+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","north-carolina","mooresville","iredell-county","criminal-charges","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2026-new-bedford-massachusetts-police-officer-flock-alpr-ex-girlfriend-plate-searches-protective-order","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'notified her that her license plate had been searched for in their Flock database a'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'was tracking her vehicle using Flock Safety cameras and it made her feel like she was being followed.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'there is an open IA investigation of her running my license plate through Flock to follow me,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The ex-girlfriend says the New Bedford Police Department told her that her license plate had been searched in its Flock database a concerning number of times, and testified that police told her the officer was tracking her vehicle using Flock cameras and that it made her feel she was being followed.","causal_attribution":"The ex-girlfriend's testimony and affidavit as reported; the officer disputes the purpose of the searches."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'had been in a relationship for about two and a half years before she ended it in early April.'; 'received endless calls and text messages'; 'showed up to her home unannounced, refusing to leave when asked.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'showed up to her home unannounced while on duty in her police cruiser.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In her affidavit the ex-girlfriend says that after she ended their relationship in early April 2026 she received endless calls and text messages, and that the officer showed up at her home unannounced, including once on duty in a cruiser when the officer would not let her leave.","causal_attribution":"Allegations in the affidavit and at the hearing; not adjudicated beyond the order."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'raised concerns about potential unauthorized use of the system,'; 'personal connection between the officer and an individual associated with a license plate that had been searched.'; 'The department suspended its use of the automated license plate readers on Aug. 11'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The police chief says a Flock audit begun on 31 July 2026 identified an officer whose activity raised concerns about potential unauthorized use, and a personal connection between the officer and a person associated with a searched plate; the officer was served an emergency restraining order on 10 August and placed on administrative leave, and the department suspended its Flock cameras on 11 August.","causal_attribution":"Police chief's statement as reported by Boston.com."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was served with a six-month abuse prevention order in court Thursday in relation to her ex-girlfriend'; 'testified in court, however, that the ex’s license plate was the subject of a legitimate drug investigation in the city, leading to the database searches.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'was not a target of that investigation, your honor. Her car was a target'; 'based on another operator of that car,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'A protective order against'; 'was extended for six months during a hearing last Thursday.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"At a hearing in New Bedford District Court on 13 August 2026 the officer was served with a six-month abuse prevention order, which Boston.com describes as the extension of a protective order after an emergency restraining order served on 10 August; the officer testified that the plate was the subject of a legitimate drug investigation, and the officer's attorney said the car was the target because of another operator.","causal_attribution":"Court hearing as reported; the internal investigation has not concluded."},{"id":"c5","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'acknowledged that she had used Flock to run her ex-girlfriend'; 'maintained that the searches were for professional reasons.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'was the subject of a legitimate drug investigation in the city, leading to the database searches.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'was tracking her vehicle using Flock Safety cameras'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The purpose of the officer's Flock searches of the ex-girlfriend's plate is disputed: she says police told her the officer was tracking her vehicle, while the officer acknowledged at the hearing that she had used Flock to run the plate but said the searches were for professional reasons, namely a legitimate drug investigation involving another operator of the car.","causal_attribution":"Competing accounts at the 13 August hearing; the internal investigation has not concluded."}],"effects":[{"label":"a woman says a police officer she had dated searched her plate in the police license-plate-reader system and harassed her after their break-up, and that it made her feel followed","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/08/19/new-bedford-police-release-more-details-on-flock-cameras-amid-investigation-of-officer-accused-of-tracking-ex-girlfriend/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-03 (Boston.com, 19 August 2026). Reports the affidavit filed in New Bedford District Court, which Boston.com obtained, and the police chief's statement.","independence_group":"new-bedford-affidavit-and-chief"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://turnto10.com/news/local/new-bedford-officer-accused-of-using-flock-camera-to-track-ex-girlfriend-to-face-judge-aug-13-2026","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-03 (WJAR NBC 10, 13 August 2026). Reports the 13 August court hearing.","independence_group":"new-bedford-court-hearing"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/new-bedford-police-flock-camera-hearing/3997454/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-03 (NBC Boston, 13 August 2026). Reports the same hearing; treated as the same chain as WJAR.","independence_group":"new-bedford-court-hearing"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["When and how many times the plate was searched, and what the searches returned.","Whether the searches were connected to an investigation, as the officer says, or were personal.","The outcome of the internal investigation, the wider audit and any criminal referral."],"geography":{"basis":"The New Bedford Police Department and its Flock system are in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the abuse prevention order was issued in New Bedford District Court (WJAR, NBC Boston, Boston.com). Her affidavit says the officer came to her home while on duty in a police cruiser (Boston.com, WJAR), which places her residence in the US.","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 woman says a police officer she had dated searched her plate in the department's Flock system and harassed her after their break-up; the department's audit flagged the officer and a court extended an abuse prevention order. The searches' purpose is disputed and the investigation is open. The officer and the woman are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-03"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The ex-girlfriend says the New Bedford Police Department told her that her plate had been searched in its Flock database a concerning number of times (WJAR) and that the officer was tracking her vehicle using Flock cameras (NBC Boston); the police chief says a Flock audit identified a personal connection between the officer and a person associated with a searched plate (Boston.com). The officer acknowledged running the plate but says the searches were for a drug investigation. The automated readers generated the vehicle-location records about her car; the searches are recorded as the officer's acts.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"New Bedford, Massachusetts: a police officer is under internal investigation after a Flock audit raised concerns about unauthorized use and a personal connection to a searched plate; the officer's ex-girlfriend, who says she was harassed after their break-up and that police told her that her plate had been searched a concerning number of times, had an abuse prevention order extended for six months on 13 August 2026; the officer says the searches were for a drug investigation, and the department paused its Flock cameras","summary":"The New Bedford Police Department in Massachusetts placed an officer on administrative leave in August 2026 after an audit of its Flock license-plate-reader system, begun on 31 July, flagged activity that raised concerns about unauthorized use and found a personal connection between the officer and a person associated with a license plate that had been searched. The officer's former girlfriend, who ended their relationship in early April 2026, says in an affidavit reported by Boston.com that she then received endless calls and messages and that the officer showed up at her home unannounced, once while on duty in a cruiser. WJAR reports that she alleged the department had told her that her plate had been searched in its Flock database a concerning number of times, and NBC Boston reports her testimony that police told her the officer was tracking her vehicle and that this made her feel she was being followed. On 13 August New Bedford District Court extended an abuse prevention order against the officer for six months. The officer testified that the searches were for a legitimate drug investigation involving another driver of the car. The department suspended its use of Flock on 11 August while it reviews the system; its internal investigation is open and no criminal charge has been reported.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-13","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader system used by the New Bedford Police Department since 2024, in which the officer is accused of searching the ex-girlfriend's license plate","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A woman says a police officer she had dated harassed her after their break-up and that the department told her the officer had searched her plate in its Flock license-plate-reader system a concerning number of times, which made her feel followed (court hearing and affidavit as reported by WJAR, NBC Boston and Boston.com); a court extended an abuse prevention order, and the officer says the searches were for a drug investigation.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the officer's former girlfriend, whose plate searches and harassment are described in her affidavit and testimony (Boston.com, WJAR, NBC Boston). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-MA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/08/19/new-bedford-police-release-more-details-on-flock-cameras-amid-investigation-of-officer-accused-of-tracking-ex-girlfriend/","primarySourceLabel":"Boston.com, 19 August 2026: New Bedford police release more details on Flock amid investigation of officer accused of tracking ex-girlfriend","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-03T03:24:21.688309+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-03T03:24:21.688309+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","stalking","massachusetts","new-bedford","protective-order","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2026-san-jose-officer-flock-alpr-data-domestic-violence-accuser","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Chief Joseph: 'The officer accessed license plate reader data and provided that to a suspect in a domestic violence situation, which enabled that suspect to locate a victim'; 'accused of accessing Flock camera data on his personal phone to help a family member last spring'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'the officer used his personal phone to access the Flock camera system and then provided the location of a vehicle to his cousin. The cousin subsequently used the information to track down his accuser, according to our partner the Bay Area News Group.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A San Jose police officer accessed the department's Flock license-plate-reader data on his personal phone and gave a vehicle's location to a relative who was a suspect in a domestic-violence case, enabling him to locate the woman accusing him.","causal_attribution":"The chief's public account, carried by NBC Bay Area, and ABC7's report drawing on the Bay Area News Group; the locating of the accuser is the reported consequence."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'we immediately placed this officer on administrative leave. We launched a criminal investigation into his conduct. We referred that investigation to the district attorney's office and we ultimately terminated'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'the officer's case was submitted to the State of California P.O.S.T. for a decertification investigation'; 'Neither the officer nor the cousin has been criminally charged.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The officer was placed on leave, criminally investigated, referred to the district attorney and fired; the case was submitted to California POST for decertification; neither the officer nor the cousin has been charged.","causal_attribution":"Departmental actions as announced; charging status per ABC7 on 13 September."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'he has made changes to the policy to ensure the data cannot be accessed on a personal device'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'officers are no longer permitted to access the system on their personal devices'; 'testing new smart auditing tools to flag possible access without a lawful purpose'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The department barred access to the system from personal devices and is testing auditing tools to flag access without a lawful purpose.","causal_attribution":"Policy responses as reported by both outlets."}],"effects":[{"label":"a domestic-violence accuser was located by the suspect using her vehicle's plate-reader location data passed on by an officer","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-jose-police-fired-flock-camera/4141719/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-09-11T17:29-07:00; Robert Handa; the chief's on-camera quotes).","independence_group":"nbc-bay-area"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://abc7news.com/post/san-jose-police-officer-fired-allegedly-sharing-flock-camera-data-suspect-domestic-violence-case-authorities-say/19825592/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-09-13T22:49Z; KGO; cites the Bay Area News Group for the cousin locating his accuser).","independence_group":"abc7-bang"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","public_services","relationships"],"unknowns":["The date of the disclosure is given only as 'last spring' by the chief; the incident date is left unknown rather than inferred.","What happened after the suspect located the victim is not reported; no injury or further offence is described in the inspected sources.","The officer's and the cousin's identities and the status of the domestic-violence case are not reported in the inspected sources.","The Bay Area News Group original cited by ABC7 was not inspected."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: San Jose Police Department's camera network and the locating of the victim, San Jose, California (both reports). The victim's residence is not stated beyond the San Jose case; no court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional privacy and safety case: automated license-plate-reader records about a domestic-violence accuser were passed by an officer to the suspect, who used them to find her, as stated publicly by the police chief and reported by two local outlets. The victim, officer and suspect are unnamed in the sources and here; the AI component generated the location record and the misuse is recorded as a human act.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-16"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The police chief states that the officer accessed the department's Flock automated license-plate-reader data and provided it to the suspect, enabling him to locate the victim; ABC7 describes the system as the Flock camera system accessed on a personal phone. The automated readers generated the vehicle-location record about the victim; the disclosure was a human act.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"San Jose: police officer fired after passing Flock license-plate-reader location data to a relative accused of domestic violence, who used it to find his accuser","summary":"San Jose's police chief announced on 11 September 2026 that an officer had been fired after accessing the department's Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader data on his personal phone and giving a vehicle's location to his cousin, a suspect in a domestic-violence case, who used it to locate the woman accusing him. The chief called it 'a betrayal of the public trust', said the officer was placed on leave, criminally investigated and referred to the district attorney, and that the case was submitted to California's peace-officer standards commission for decertification; neither the officer nor the cousin has been charged. The department has since barred access to the system from personal devices and is testing auditing tools. Neither the victim nor the officer is named in the inspected reports.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-11","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license plate readers (San Jose Police Department camera network)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A woman who had accused a man of domestic violence was located by him after a police officer passed him her vehicle's automated license-plate-reader location data; the inspected reports describe the locating but no further consequence.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the domestic-violence accuser whom the suspect located using the data (NBC Bay Area, ABC7).","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-jose-police-fired-flock-camera/4141719/","primarySourceLabel":"NBC Bay Area, 11 September 2026: the chief's announcement and quotes","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-16T03:16:38.30859+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:51.775618+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police","domestic-violence","privacy","san-jose","california","institutional-use"]}]}