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Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.", "source": "NOPE Incident Tracker", "url": "https://nope.net/incidents", "license": "CC BY 4.0" }, "incidents": [ { "id": "2025-isaacs-flock-alpr-wrongful-arrest-florida", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Investigators found Lindsey's black Dodge Durango through a Flock automated license plate reader. The camera recorded her vehicle traveling eastbound near the Seminole and Volusia county line at 9:51 p.m. That camera was about three miles west of the crash scene. The crash happened around 9:53 p.m.'; 'A 911 caller described a maroon Dodge Durango and provided part of its license plate number'; 'A specialized Florida Highway Patrol team later inspected Lindsey's vehicle and reported finding no damage'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Isaacs' attorney said location data and the timing of the incident showed Isaacs could not have been at the scene.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "A Flock automated license-plate reader recorded her black Dodge Durango eastbound near the Seminole and Volusia county line at 9:51 p.m. on 4 October 2025, about three miles west of a crash at about 9:53 p.m. that killed three people, and investigators found her vehicle through that record; a 911 caller had described a maroon Durango with a partial plate, and an FHP inspection found no crash damage on her SUV.", "causal_attribution": "The camera detail and timing are Fox's account of the complaint and her attorney's analysis, consistent with Flock's statement quoted in the same article; WKMG confirms the location-data-and-timing defence without the specifics." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'On April 17, 2026, Lindsey got a call from her attorney. She had to surrender that day'; 'She faced eight felony charges: three counts of vehicular homicide...'; 'she described spending her first several days in solitary confinement'; 'led to her being arrested and 13 days in jail'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Isaacs was arrested in April and accused of driving the SUV involved in an October crash on Interstate 4 near DeBary that killed three people. She spent 13 days in jail and two weeks out on bond before the charges were dropped.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "She was arrested on 17 April 2026 on eight felony charges including three counts of vehicular homicide, spent 13 days in jail with the first several days in solitary confinement, and then two weeks out on bond before the charges were dropped.", "causal_attribution": "Two independent chains (a national interview and a local station) agree on the arrest, the 13 days and the dropped charges; the exact charge list and solitary confinement come from Fox." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'On May 22, the State Attorney's Office formally declined to prosecute Lindsey on all eight charges. Authorities then arrested Alisa Lee Montalvo... She faces nine charges, including three counts of vehicular homicide and tampering with physical evidence. She has not been convicted'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Florida Highway Patrol later arrested another woman who investigators said was actually driving the vehicle that caused the crash.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "On 22 May 2026 the State Attorney's Office formally declined to prosecute her on all eight charges, and troopers arrested another woman, alleged to have driven a maroon Dodge Durango, on nine charges including three counts of vehicular homicide; she has not been convicted.", "causal_attribution": "Both outlets report the dismissal and the second arrest; the date and the second suspect's charges come from Fox." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Lindsey has since filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against two Florida Highway Patrol troopers involved in the investigation, alleging false arrest, wrongful imprisonment and malicious prosecution.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'The state kept the SUV for months. Isaacs' attorneys later obtained it while conducting their own investigation and preserving evidence for a lawsuit Isaacs filed against the Florida Highway Patrol.'; 'getting her Dodge Durango back Thursday'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "She has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit over the arrest; her attorneys recovered her impounded SUV on 27 August 2026 while preserving evidence for the suit.", "causal_attribution": "Fox names the defendants as two troopers; WKMG describes the suit as against the Florida Highway Patrol. The complaint was not inspected." }, { "id": "c5", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Flock statement: 'Flock cameras provide investigative leads; they do not identify perpetrators, determine guilt, or make arrest decisions. In fact, the complaint itself calls the Flock evidence \"exculpatory, not inculpatory\"'; Isaacs: '\"I 100% think the second one you said, how police interpret the camera footage\"'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "Flock Safety said its cameras provide investigative leads and do not identify perpetrators or make arrest decisions, that the complaint itself calls the Flock evidence exculpatory, and that the camera accurately placed her vehicle three miles from the scene two minutes before the crash; Isaacs said she blames how police interpreted the data rather than the technology.", "causal_attribution": "The vendor's and the plaintiff's positions on causation, both as quoted by Fox; recorded as the dispute behind causation_status." }, { "id": "c6", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier addressed the case in June after News 6 questioned him about the investigation. \"Mistakes shouldn't happen. They do sometimes,\" Uthmeier said. \"This was not a good case.\"'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in June 2026: 'Mistakes shouldn't happen. They do sometimes. This was not a good case.'", "causal_attribution": "Official comment to WKMG." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "arrested on eight felonies and jailed 13 days after an automated plate-reader sighting was treated as identification; charges dropped", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/tech/innocent-woman-says-police-use-flock-camera-led-13-days-jail", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-09-09T09:12-04:00; Kurt Knutsson; first-person interview with Isaacs on the CyberGuy Report podcast, her attorney's analysis, the federal complaint, Flock Safety's statement).", "independence_group": "fox-cyberguy" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/08/27/woman-wrongly-arrested-in-fatal-volusia-county-crash-gets-suv-back/", "kind": "local_tv_news", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-08-27T21:48Z; WKMG News 6 Volusia County correspondent; own interview at the tow yard and the attorney general's June comment to News 6).", "independence_group": "wkmg" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "institutional_use" ], "contexts": [ "justice" ], "unknowns": [ "The federal complaint was not inspected; its case number, filing date and exact defendants are not given consistently (Fox: two troopers; WKMG: the Florida Highway Patrol).", "When police first came to her home after the 4 October crash is not dated in the inspected sources.", "The bond amount and the exact release date are not reported.", "Earlier local coverage of the arrest and dismissal (WFTV, May 2026) was not inspected: the site refuses requests from outside the United States.", "The second suspect's case is pending; she has not been convicted." ], "geography": { "basis": "Event: the I-4 crash near DeBary, her home, the Volusia County jail and the Florida Highway Patrol investigation, Florida. Affected person: Volusia County, Florida (WKMG). Courts: Volusia County criminal charges (dropped); the federal civil-rights suit in Florida.", "court_countries": [ "US" ], "event_countries": [ "US" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "US" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional automated-record case: an automated license-plate reader's record about her vehicle was treated by investigators as identification and led to eight felony charges and 13 days in jail before the charges were dropped, documented by a national interview and an independent local station. The vendor's position that the record was accurate and exculpatory is preserved, so causation is recorded as disputed. She is named in her own interviews and the public court record; the second suspect is named only as charged and unconvicted.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-16" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "Fox News reports, and Flock Safety's own statement confirms, that a Flock automated license-plate reader recorded her vehicle near the crash and that investigators found her through that record; the reader's record was accurate, and the parties dispute whether investigators' reliance on it caused the arrest (the complaint) or whether the data was exculpatory and misread (Flock).", "status": "supported" }, "person_relations": [ "made_claim_about" ] }, "name": "Florida: Lindsey Isaacs jailed 13 days on vehicular-homicide charges after troopers treated a Flock license-plate-reader sighting of her SUV as identification; charges dropped and another driver arrested", "summary": "After a crash on Interstate 4 near DeBary, Florida, on 4 October 2025 killed three people, a Flock Safety automated license-plate reader recorded Lindsey Isaacs's black Dodge Durango about three miles west of the scene two minutes before the collision. Although a 911 caller had described a maroon Durango with a partial plate that did not match, and a Florida Highway Patrol inspection found no crash damage on her SUV, she was arrested on 17 April 2026 on eight felony counts including three of vehicular homicide, spent 13 days in jail (the first several in solitary) and two weeks on bond, and her SUV was impounded for months. On 22 May 2026 the State Attorney's Office declined to prosecute all eight charges and troopers arrested another woman said to have been driving a maroon Durango. Isaacs has filed a federal civil-rights suit against two troopers; Flock Safety says its cameras provide leads, not identifications, and that its data was exculpatory. Florida's attorney general called it 'not a good case'.", "incidentDate": "2025-10-04", "incidentEndDate": "2026-05-22", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "unknown", "reportedDate": "2026-08-27", "aiSystem": "Flock Safety automated license plate reader (camera near the Seminole and Volusia county line on Interstate 4)", "aiCompany": "Flock Safety", "severity": "high", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "loss_of_liberty", "legal_harm", "psychological_distress", "property_loss" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A 23-year-old was charged with eight felonies including three counts of vehicular homicide, jailed for 13 days (partly in solitary) and had her SUV impounded for months after investigators treated an automated license-plate-reader sighting of her vehicle near a fatal crash as identification; the charges were dropped and she describes lasting mental, physical and emotional effects.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "disputed", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One person, Lindsey Isaacs, was arrested and jailed; the three people killed in the crash are not counted as harmed by the AI-related error.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "US", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "lawsuit_filed", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.foxnews.com/tech/innocent-woman-says-police-use-flock-camera-led-13-days-jail", "primarySourceLabel": "Fox News (Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report), 9 September 2026: interview with Isaacs and her attorney; the complaint; the Flock Safety statement; the FDOT permit revocation", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-16T03:16:39.652666+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "flock", "alpr", "license-plate-reader", "wrongful-arrest", "florida", "volusia-county", "justice", "made-claim-about", "lawsuit" ] }, { "id": "2025-lipps-facial-recognition-wrongful-jailing", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Surveillance 'showed woman using a fake US army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands'; the 8-count charge list.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "Zibolski 'acknowledged that investigators made incorrect assumptions based on the West Fargo Police Department's Clearview AI facial recognition technology'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" }, { "locator": "Warrant signed 2025-07-01 with nationwide extradition; the chief: the case 'was not solely based on just that one piece'; 'an AI function through the North Dakota State Intelligence Center'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "The case began with bank-fraud surveillance of a woman using a fake U.S. Army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars; an AI facial-recognition identification tied Lipps to that surveillance — recorded by Snopes as the West Fargo Police Department's Clearview AI technology, and by Fargo's chief as 'an AI function through the North Dakota State Intelligence Center... not anything that we own'; a nationwide-extradition warrant was signed on 1 July 2025.", "causal_attribution": "The vendor attribution differs between the chains (Clearview per Snopes' reading of the WFPD investigation; the state intelligence center's function per the chief) and is recorded with the discrepancy." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'US marshals arrested Lipps at her Tennessee home while she was babysitting four children... taken away at gunpoint'; 'nearly four months without bail'; bank records 'more than 1,200 miles away in Tennessee'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "PD timeline: TN waiver 10-20; booked Cass Co. 10-30; bank records presented 12-12; dismissal agreed 12-23; released 12-24.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "Dismissal 'without prejudice... Angela remains a person they are investigating'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "U.S. Marshals arrested her at gunpoint at her Tennessee home on 14 July 2025 while she babysat four children; she fought extradition for about three months in a Tennessee jail, was booked into Cass County on 30 October, and was released on 24 December after her bank records showed her more than 1,200 miles away in Tennessee; charges were dismissed without prejudice.", "causal_attribution": "The custody timeline is consistent across the Guardian, KVLY's police timeline and Snopes; the dismissal's without-prejudice character comes from KVLY's attorney piece." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "KVLY-obtained email 'showed six Fargo detectives were notified of Lipps' arrest in July — nearly five months before Fargo Police say they knew she was in custody'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "An email obtained by KVLY shows six Fargo detectives were notified of her arrest in July 2025 — nearly five months before the department says it learned she was in custody (5 December).", "causal_attribution": "KVLY's own document reporting; the department's stated knowledge date comes from its police timeline." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "The 'incorrect assumptions' concession (Snopes' reading of the 24 March presser).", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" }, { "locator": "The chief's 'not solely based on just that one piece' and the state-center tool description.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "Stefonowicz's April statement on an apology.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski acknowledged 'incorrect assumptions' linked to the AI identification while insisting the case 'was not solely based on just that one piece'; incoming Chief Stefonowicz said in April that if Ms. Lipps deserves an apology, 'I will absolutely be the first person to reach out'.", "causal_attribution": "The concession's exact wording beyond Snopes' paraphrase is unverified; both chiefs' positions are recorded as stated." }, { "id": "c5", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'lost her home, her car and her dog.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "Rice: 'pursuing potential civil rights claims, though no lawsuit has been filed'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "She lost her home, her car and her dog; her attorney Eric Rice said he was pursuing potential civil-rights claims, with no lawsuit filed as of 31 March 2026.", "causal_attribution": "The losses are from the Guardian's account of her situation; the claim status is the attorney's statement as of 31 March 2026." }, { "id": "c6", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Angela Lipps, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, filed the federal lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in North Dakota against the City of Fargo and Fargo Police Department Detective Lucas Heck'; 'The complaint says Heck failed to disclose that the facial recognition result was actually based on a photo from the suspect's fake ID, not the surveillance footage'; 'The lawsuit brings five claims... Lipps is seeking $10 million in damages'; 'These are allegations contained in a civil complaint. No response has been filed as of this writing.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s5" } ], "assertion": "On 15 September 2026 Lipps filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit in the District of North Dakota against the City of Fargo and Detective Lucas Heck seeking $10 million, alleging that he relied on a flawed facial-recognition match based on the suspect's fake-ID photo, ignored exculpatory evidence and failed to disclose that such results are only investigative leads; the suit brings five claims and says the department had no facial-recognition policy or training at the time.", "causal_attribution": "The filing and its contents are reported by the same station chain (KVLY) that broke the case; the complaint itself was not inspected, so the claim is recorded as reported rather than documented. The InForum report of the same filing answered HTTP 403." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "five months wrongfully jailed on an AI facial-recognition identification, with lasting losses", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (12 Mar 2026, Marina Dunbar).", "independence_group": "guardian" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/03/17/chief-zibolski-ai-was-lead-not-only-evidence-wrongful-jail-allegation/", "kind": "local_tv_news", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (17 Mar 2026, Alix Larsen).", "independence_group": "kvly" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/04/01/attorney-discusses-potential-lawsuit-after-tennessee-grandmother-jailed-by-facial-recognition-error/", "kind": "local_tv_news", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (31 Mar 2026, Ethan Kramer).", "independence_group": "kvly" }, { "id": "s4", "url": "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ai-tennessee-woman-jail/", "kind": "fact_check", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (19 Jul 2026, updated 22 Jul; rating True). Aggregates the InForum/WDAY originals (blocked, 403); its Clearview attribution reflects that chain.", "independence_group": "snopes" }, { "id": "s5", "url": "https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/09/15/tennessee-woman-sues-fargo-ex-detective-over-wrongful-arrest-tied-facial-recognition-error/", "kind": "local_tv_news", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-09-15T17:39Z; Valley News Live, which first reported the case in March 2026).", "independence_group": "kvly" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "institutional_use" ], "contexts": [ "justice" ], "unknowns": [ "The InForum original investigation (the first reporting chain) is blocked (403) and was not read; Snopes' and the Guardian's accounts of it are used instead.", "The exact wording of the 'incorrect assumptions' concession beyond Snopes' paraphrase is unverified.", "The vendor question — Clearview AI (per Snopes) versus the North Dakota State Intelligence Center's AI function (per the chief) — is unresolved.", "The woman in the bank-fraud surveillance (the actual suspect) is not reported as identified; the dismissal without prejudice leaves the investigation open.", "Her arrest's bail conditions and the custody conditions are not detailed in the inspected sources.", "The federal complaint (filed 15 September 2026) was not inspected and its case number is not given in the inspected report; the InForum account of the filing was blocked (403)." ], "geography": { "basis": "Event: arrest at her Tennessee home; jailing in Tennessee and Cass County, North Dakota; the underlying bank fraud in the Fargo/West Fargo area. Affected person: Lipps, Tennessee. Court: the Cass County charges (dismissed), North Dakota.", "court_countries": [ "US" ], "event_countries": [ "US" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "US" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional automated-decision case (made_decision_about / made_claim_about): an AI facial-recognition identification set five months of wrongful custody in motion, documented by the Guardian, an independent local chain with its own document reporting (KVLY), and a fact-check carrying the blocked original chain. She is named in national coverage; the police chiefs' accounts are preserved as contrary context. Updated 16 September 2026 with the $10 million federal suit filed on 15 September, recorded from the Valley News Live report as a reported claim.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-16" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "Snopes records the misidentification as based on the West Fargo PD's Clearview AI technology; Fargo's police chief separately describes 'an AI function through the North Dakota State Intelligence Center' and concedes 'incorrect assumptions' while insisting the case was not solely based on that one piece. The vendor attribution (Clearview vs the state center's function) is recorded with the discrepancy.", "status": "supported" }, "person_relations": [ "made_decision_about", "made_claim_about" ] }, "name": "Tennessee grandmother Angela Lipps jailed five months on an AI facial-recognition misidentification; charges dismissed after bank records placed her 1,200 miles away", "summary": "On 14 July 2025, U.S. Marshals arrested Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old Tennessee grandmother, at gunpoint at her home while she was babysitting four children, on a nationwide-extradition North Dakota warrant: West Fargo police's AI facial-recognition technology had tied her to bank-fraud surveillance of a woman using a fake U.S. Army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars. She fought extradition for about three months in a Tennessee jail, was booked into Cass County, North Dakota on 30 October 2025 on four counts of unauthorized use of personal identifying information and four counts of theft, and was released on 24 December after her bank records showed her more than 1,200 miles away in Tennessee; charges were dismissed without prejudice. Fargo's police chief acknowledged 'incorrect assumptions' linked to the AI identification; an email obtained by KVLY shows six Fargo detectives were notified of her arrest in July, nearly five months before the department says it knew she was in custody. She lost her home, her car and her dog; her attorneys are pursuing potential civil-rights claims, with no lawsuit filed as of 31 March 2026. On 15 September 2026 she filed a $10 million federal civil-rights suit in the District of North Dakota against the City of Fargo and the detective, alleging he relied on a flawed facial-recognition match and ignored exculpatory evidence.", "incidentDate": "2025-07-14", "incidentEndDate": "2025-12-24", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "single_interaction", "reportedDate": "2026-03-12", "aiSystem": "Clearview AI facial recognition (per Snopes' account of the West Fargo PD investigation); described by Fargo's chief as 'an AI function through the North Dakota State Intelligence Center'", "aiCompany": "Clearview AI (vendor per Snopes); North Dakota State Intelligence Center (per Fargo police chief)", "severity": "high", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "legal_harm", "loss_of_autonomy", "reputational_harm", "property_loss", "psychological_distress" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Five months jailed on an AI-driven misidentification — arrested at gunpoint while babysitting, held states away from home — ending only when her bank records proved she was 1,200 miles away; she lost her home, car and dog, and the dismissal without prejudice leaves her 'a person they are investigating'.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One documented harmed person: Lipps, the misidentified defendant (three chains; her attorneys' account). The children she was babysitting are recorded in the narrative but not counted as harmed persons (no harm to them is reported).", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "US", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "lawsuit_filed", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud", "primarySourceLabel": "The Guardian (12 Mar 2026, Marina Dunbar) — the arrest, the custody ordeal, the losses", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-15T10:28:13.154947+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "civil-rights", "clearview", "facial-recognition", "justice", "lawsuit", "made-claim-about", "made-decision-about", "north-dakota", "tennessee", "wrongful-arrest" ] } ] }