{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-05T06:38:04.439Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"colleton-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":1,"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":"2026-colleton-county-south-carolina-sheriffs-lieutenant-flock-alpr-searches-spouse-acquaintances-fired","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was terminated on August 31 after the department said he conducted 62 unauthorized searches using the Flock system'; 'An internal audit found that the searches included inquiries involving vehicles registered to the lieutenant’s spouse and other acquaintances.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The department said the lieutenant conducted 62 unauthorized searches using the Flock system, and an internal audit found the searches included vehicles registered to the lieutenant's spouse and other acquaintances.","causal_attribution":"The sheriff's office's internal finding as relayed by one outlet; no audit record was inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was terminated on August 31 after the department said'; 'says he has contacted the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) to request an investigation into potential criminal conduct'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The lieutenant was terminated on 31 August 2026, and the sheriff said he had asked the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to investigate potential criminal conduct.","causal_attribution":"The sheriff's statement as relayed; the year is the article's publication year."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'another lieutenant with the same department was also fired after an audit revealed he made more than 2,700 unauthorized searches with the Flock system'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Another lieutenant with the same department was fired earlier in August 2026 after an audit revealed more than 2,700 unauthorized Flock searches.","causal_attribution":"Live 5 News's recap; context for the audit, and a separate officer whose searches are not described in this source."}],"effects":[{"label":"vehicles searched without authorization in a police license-plate-reader system by a sheriff's lieutenant (the lieutenant's spouse and other acquaintances)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.live5news.com/2026/08/31/another-colleton-county-lieutenant-fired-over-flock-camera-misuse/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-05 (live; Live 5 News, WCSC; published 31 August 2026). Relays the sheriff's office statement.","independence_group":"colleton-county-sheriff-2026-08-31-statement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["When the searches were run and how many concerned the spouse.","How many acquaintances were searched and who they were.","Whether the spouse or the acquaintances knew of the searches or experienced further consequences.","Whether the SLED investigation led to charges."],"geography":{"basis":"The lieutenant worked for the Colleton County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina and searched that agency's Flock system (Live 5 News). The people searched are not identified and their residences are 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 Colleton County Sheriff's Office, as reported by Live 5 News, fired a lieutenant after the department said the lieutenant ran 62 unauthorized Flock searches, which an internal audit found included vehicles registered to the lieutenant's spouse and other acquaintances. The finding is an internal determination; no charges are reported. The automated readers generated the plate-read records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. Neither the lieutenant nor the people searched are named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Colleton County Sheriff's Office, as reported by Live 5 News, says the lieutenant conducted 62 unauthorized searches using the Flock system. The plate-read records were the system's output, and the misuse was a human act. The source does not describe the readers as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Colleton County, South Carolina: a sheriff's lieutenant was fired on 31 August 2026 after the department said the lieutenant ran 62 unauthorized Flock license-plate-reader searches, which an internal audit found included vehicles registered to the lieutenant's spouse and other acquaintances","summary":"The Colleton County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina terminated a lieutenant on 31 August 2026 after the department said the lieutenant had conducted 62 unauthorized searches in its Flock license-plate-reader system. According to Live 5 News, an internal audit found that the searches included inquiries on vehicles registered to the lieutenant's spouse and to other acquaintances. Another lieutenant at the same office had been fired earlier that month after an audit revealed more than 2,700 unauthorized Flock searches. The sheriff said he had asked the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to investigate potential criminal conduct. No charges are reported, and the people searched are not identified.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-31","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader system used by the Colleton County Sheriff's Office, South Carolina, searched by the lieutenant through agency access (department statement as reported by Live 5 News)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Colleton County Sheriff's Office as reported by Live 5 News, a lieutenant ran 62 unauthorized Flock license-plate-reader searches, including on vehicles registered to the lieutenant's spouse and other acquaintances.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One counted person, the lieutenant's spouse, plus an unstated number of 'other acquaintances' whose vehicles were also searched (Live 5 News, 31 August 2026). Partial: minimum 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-SC","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.live5news.com/2026/08/31/another-colleton-county-lieutenant-fired-over-flock-camera-misuse/","primarySourceLabel":"Live 5 News (WCSC), 31 August 2026: Another Colleton County lieutenant fired over Flock camera misuse","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:23:26.093376+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T03:23:26.093376+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","south-carolina","colleton-county","internal-audit","termination","made-claim-about"]}]}