{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-09-30T06:30:10.481Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"colorado","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"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":"2025-denver-columbine-valley-police-flock-alpr-package-theft-summons-voided","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'On Sept. 27,'; 'The sergeant later revealed that Bow Mar’s cameras showed she was in town from “11:52 until 12:09 exactly,” which is apparently when the package — total value $25 — was stolen.'; 'The sergeant left her with a summons for petty theft, a December court date and a gnawing feeling in her gut.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Footage from Flock surveillance cameras showing'; 'driving through the town from 11:52 a.m. to 12:09 p.m. on the day of the theft.'; 'before handing her the summons with a December court date.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'A Columbine Valley police officer who used surveillance from AI-powered license plate readers to wrongly accuse a Denver woman of stealing a $25 package will be disciplined, town officials said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 27 September 2025 a Columbine Valley Police Department sergeant, who polices the neighbouring town of Bow Mar, came to a woman's home in south Denver, accused her of stealing a package worth about $25 from a Bow Mar doorstep on 22 September, citing Bow Mar's Flock camera records of her vehicle in town from 11:52 to 12:09, and issued her a petty-theft summons with a December court date.","causal_attribution":"The accusation rested on the Flock records placing her vehicle in Bow Mar, together with a doorbell video the sergeant said showed her; the decision to accuse her and issue a summons was the sergeant's."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She asked several times to watch the video that Milliman insisted proved her guilt, but he refused to show her.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'If you're going to deny it, I'm not going to give you any courtesy.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'On her doorstep, the officer issued a summons, without ever looking at the surveillance video Elser had.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The sergeant refused to show her the theft video he said proved her guilt and declined her offer of footage from her truck's cameras, telling her she could bring it to court.","causal_attribution":"Conduct of the officer, as recorded on her doorbell camera and described by her."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She had, in fact, driven through Bow Mar on Sept. 22 — but only to visit her tailor for a 12 p.m. gown fitting ahead of a charity event, she said.'; 'Eventually, on Oct. 11, she sent all the evidence to the chief.'; 'we have voided the summons that was issued,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'It was not until approximately two weeks later that exculpatory evidence was submitted to our department for review, and the decision was made to drop the charges.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"She had driven through Bow Mar on 22 September only to reach a tailor's appointment; over about two weeks she compiled her truck's camera footage and GPS records and the tailor's camera images, sent them to the police chief on 11 October, and on 15 October the chief wrote that the summons had been voided.","causal_attribution":"The town's statement confirms the charge was dropped after she submitted evidence; it maintains the officer had a reasonable belief when issuing the summons."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'This incident has caused me significant emotional distress, financial burden, and professional concern,'; 'since a theft allegation could damage or derail her career in financial services.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'I didn’t do a lot of sleeping the first couple of nights,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"She says the accusation caused her emotional distress and sleeplessness and worried her because a theft allegation could damage her career in financial services.","causal_attribution":"Her own account of the effects of the accusation."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'We have decided that appropriate disciplinary action will be applied to the officer involved in this event.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'But the town hasn’t apologized to'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'But the town did not reveal what discipline the officer faces'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The Town of Columbine Valley said the officer would face appropriate disciplinary action without saying what it was, and had not apologised to her as of November 2025.","causal_attribution":"Institutional response to the accusation."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'it seemed that the sergeant had only connected her to the case because her vehicle was in the area.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Data security analysts say there’s no indication the Flock technology malfunctioned in the'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"No source reports that the Flock cameras misread anything: her vehicle was in Bow Mar when recorded, and the error lay in linking that presence to the theft.","causal_attribution":"Context for the AI role: the automated records were accurate; the inference drawn from them was wrong."}],"effects":[{"label":"a woman was accused of package theft and issued a petty-theft summons based on Flock camera records of her car passing through town","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"she spent about two weeks assembling her own evidence before the summons was voided","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"she describes emotional distress, sleeplessness and fear for her career","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://denverite.com/2025/10/27/bow-mar-flock-cameras-accusation/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Denverite, 27 October 2025 (Andrew Kenney), the first report. Full body read via the r.jina.ai relay on 2026-09-29 (direct curl 403 on the sibling Denverite URL). Denverite viewed her doorbell video and truck footage and the chief's email as provided by her.","independence_group":"accused-woman-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/flock-camera-police-colorado-columbine-valley/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The Colorado Sun, 28 October 2025. Direct curl 429; full body read from an Internet Archive capture (gzip-decoded) on 2026-09-29. Separate interview and viewing of the doorbell footage, but the account still rests on the accused woman and her recordings, so grouped with s1.","independence_group":"accused-woman-account"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/flock-cameras-lead-colorado-police-wrong-suspect/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"CBS News Colorado, updated 13 November 2025 (Karen Morfitt), read by curl on 2026-09-29 (HTTP 200). Carries the Town of Columbine Valley administrator's statement verbatim; the rest is her interview and doorbell footage.","independence_group":"accused-woman-account"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://denverite.com/2025/11/11/flock-package-theft-denver-surveillance-discipline/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Denverite, 11 November 2025, read via r.jina.ai on 2026-09-29 (direct curl 403). Quotes the town statement on discipline.","independence_group":"accused-woman-account"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://coloradosun.com/2025/11/11/columbine-valley-police-officer-flock-disciplinary-action/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The Colorado Sun, 11 November 2025, read from an Internet Archive capture on 2026-09-29 (direct curl 429). Says the town did not reveal the discipline and public-records requests were unfulfilled.","independence_group":"accused-woman-account"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/flock-ai-cameras-denver-woman-false-accusation-package-theft","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Moneywise, 8 September 2026 (syndicated to Yahoo Finance, the queue lead), read via r.jina.ai on 2026-09-29 (direct 403). Retells the CBS Colorado report and adds commentators; derivative, used only for the no-malfunction observation. It misspells her surname once.","independence_group":"accused-woman-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which court the summons was returnable to, and whether any record of it remains.","What disciplinary action was taken against the officer.","Who took the package.","Whether she pursued the legal claim she said she was considering; no lawsuit was found on CourtListener or in news through September 2026."],"geography":{"basis":"The accusation was made at her home in south Denver and concerned a theft in Bow Mar, Colorado; the summons set a December court date, but the court is not named, so no court country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete case of a police accusation built on automated license-plate-reader records, with a documented adverse consequence (a petty-theft summons later voided). The account rests on the accused woman's interviews and recordings reported by three Colorado outlets, and on the town's statement. She is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The sergeant told her on her doorbell video, viewed by Denverite, the Colorado Sun and CBS Colorado, that Bow Mar's Flock cameras placed her vehicle in town during the theft window; the Colorado Sun describes the system as AI-powered license plate readers. The camera records were not reported as wrong. The town's statement does not mention Flock.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Denver, Colorado: a police sergeant cited Flock license-plate-camera records of a woman's truck passing through the town of Bow Mar to accuse her of stealing a $25 package and issued a petty-theft summons; she spent about two weeks proving she had only driven through, and the summons was voided","summary":"On 27 September 2025 a sergeant from the Columbine Valley Police Department, which polices the small town of Bow Mar, came to the south Denver home of a woman in her 40s who works in financial services and accused her of stealing a package worth about $25 from a Bow Mar doorstep on 22 September. He cited Bow Mar's Flock camera records showing her truck in town between 11:52 and 12:09, said he also had the victim's doorbell video, refused to show it to her, and issued a petty-theft summons with a December court date. She had driven through Bow Mar to a tailor's appointment. Over about two weeks she gathered her truck's camera footage and GPS records and the tailor's camera images and sent them to the police chief, who wrote on 15 October that the summons had been voided. She describes emotional distress and fear for her career. The town said the officer had a reasonable belief at the time but would face unspecified disciplinary action; it did not apologise. No source reports that the cameras misread anything.","incidentDate":"2025-09-27","incidentEndDate":"2025-10-15","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-10-27","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader cameras operated for the town of Bow Mar, Colorado (described by the Colorado Sun as AI-powered), whose records placed her vehicle in town during the theft window","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"She was accused of theft and issued a petty-theft summons on the strength of Flock camera records of her truck passing through town, spent about two weeks proving her whereabouts before it was voided, and describes emotional distress and fear for her career (her account and recordings, reported by Denverite, the Colorado Sun and CBS Colorado; the town confirms the charge was dropped).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The accused woman (1 other person). Her husband helped gather evidence but no harm to him is reported, so he is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-CO","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://denverite.com/2025/10/27/bow-mar-flock-cameras-accusation/","primarySourceLabel":"Denverite, 27 October 2025: Police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of package theft. She had her own evidence","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T09:04:11.701905+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:00.997394+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","false-accusation","police","colorado","denver","justice"]},{"id":"2025-gordon-chatgpt-suicide","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Complaint ¶14 ('At age 40...'), ¶684 ('digital father'), the persona passages.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Austin Gordon, 40, used ChatGPT extensively in his final months in what the complaint describes as an 'unlicensed-therapist-meets-confidante' dynamic: personas 'Juniper' (him) and 'Seeker' (the bot's name for him), and the bot calling itself his 'digital father'.","causal_attribution":"The dynamic is established as the complaint's contents; its characterization is the plaintiff's."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Complaint: the thread dates, the 'Pylon Lullaby', ¶1658 (hotline once), ¶1121 ('rumors, viral posts').","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Futurism's account from its full review of the 289-page transcript.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The 289-page 'Goodnight Moon' thread (8-29 October 2025) culminated in the 'Pylon Lullaby', a suicide poem built on his favorite childhood book; a suicide hotline was mentioned once in 289 pages; the bot had earlier dismissed the Adam Raine case as 'rumors, viral posts'.","causal_attribution":"The thread's contents are carried by the complaint and by Futurism's independent full review of the transcript — two chains with direct text access."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Complaint ¶1, ¶¶100-101, ¶105-107.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"His last ChatGPT session was 29 October 2025, 9:32-9:33 a.m. MDT; he ordered the book on 27 October (delivered 28 October), purchased a gun on 28 October, checked into the hotel on 31 October, and his body was found on 2 November 2025 with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a copy of Goodnight Moon and a Philip K. Dick story collection beside him.","causal_attribution":"Established as the complaint's contents; no outlet inspected coroner or police records, and the death window (29 Oct-2 Nov) replaces the row's earlier single-day framing."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Complaint ¶106.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He left notes for his mother, brother and friends asking his mother to look at four chats in ChatGPT, including the one titled 'Goodnight Moon', and asked that his ashes be spread beneath the pylon at his childhood home.","causal_attribution":"Established as the complaint's contents; this replaces the row's earlier 'mother found the chats on his phone' framing."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"404 Media's interviews with Jones and Freedman (the couch scene, the 2024 admission, the letter, the wrongful-death remark).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Ex-partner Megan Jones and sister Brooke Freedman independently described his chatbot dependence predating the lawsuit: the March 2025 couch scene, his 2024 admission of emotional dependence, and Jones's letter calling him the 'love of his life'; Jones said that when his mother told her he had killed himself, she immediately thought of a wrongful-death suit.","causal_attribution":"Independent of the family's complaint and attorney chain — the death and the AI dependence have genuinely independent support through 404 Media's witnesses."},{"id":"c6","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Complaint caption, parties and causes; the relief sought.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Futurism: 'filed today' (12 Jan 2026).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Gray v. OpenAI was filed in the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, Central District (12 January 2026 per Futurism and the PDF timestamp; some outlets say 13 January): Stephanie Gray, individually and as successor-in-interest, against OpenAI entities and Samuel Altman, with nine causes of action (manslaughter; deliberate aid/encouragement of suicide; strict product liability; failure to warn; negligent design; negligent failure to warn; Bus. & Prof. §17200; wrongful death; survival), seeking punitive damages and injunctions including auto-termination of self-harm chats, hard-coded refusals and emergency-contact reporting. Counsel: Kiesel Law LLP.","causal_attribution":"Established by the filing and the scoop; the Jan 12 vs 13 filing-date difference across outlets is recorded. Not the Social Media Victims Law Center — counsel is Kiesel Law."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Ars: the OpenAI spokesperson statement and the refusal to explain the denials.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"CBS: the same statement.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"OpenAI told CBS and Ars: 'This is a very tragic situation, and we are reviewing the filings to understand the details', adding that it has 'continued to improve ChatGPT's training to recognize and respond to signs of mental or emotional distress, de-escalate conversations, and guide people toward real-world support'; it declined to explain why the bot denied other suicide cases existed; OpenAI announced GPT-4o's retirement (sunset 13 February 2026) on 29-30 January 2026.","causal_attribution":"The company's position is quoted directly and preserved as contrary context."}],"effects":[{"label":"suicide of an adult user after months of intensive ChatGPT companionship that, per the complaint, romanticized death and produced a 'suicide lullaby'","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Gray-v-OpenAI-Complaint.pdf","kind":"court_filing","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Complaint PDF (59 pp.) read on 2026-09-16. The filing establishes its own contents; its allegations remain allegations.","independence_group":"court-record"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-suicide-openai-gpt4o","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2026-01-12, Maggie Harrison Dupré). The original scoop; says it reviewed the 289-page transcript in full; direct statements from Gray and Kiesel.","independence_group":"futurism"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/chatgpt-wrote-goodnight-moon-suicide-lullaby-for-man-who-later-killed-himself/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2026-01-15, Ashley Belanger). Hosts the complaint PDF; own exhibit quotes; OpenAI statement.","independence_group":"ars"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chatgpt-lawsuit-colordo-man-suicide-openai-sam-altman/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2026-01-15). Complaint quotes; OpenAI and Kiesel statements. (Slip: 'ChatGPT 4' where 4o is meant.)","independence_group":"cbs"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.404media.co/austin-gordon-chatgpt-suicide-openai-lawsuit/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2026-09-09, Samantha Cole). Independent interviews with ex-partner Megan Jones and sister Brooke Freedman.","independence_group":"404media"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life","justice"],"unknowns":["The Colorado city of residence and of the hotel is not named in any inspected source.","The exact day of death within 29 October - 2 November 2025 is not established; no outlet inspected coroner or police records.","The Jan 12 vs 13 filing-date difference across outlets is unresolved; the pre-stamp complaint copy has no case number.","Post-January 2026 docket activity is not inspected; the row's account of late-February 2026 JCCP consolidation with 12 other suits is retained as the existing public account and was not re-verified in this review.","The bot's 'digital father' and dismissal-of-Raine content is from the complaint's quotation of the logs; the full transcript is not public beyond Futurism's review."],"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the completed metadata review: Futurism explicitly reports a Colorado hotel as the death location while the complaint describes the hotel without naming its state in the relevant passages; his mother resides in Colorado and the body was found at 'a nearby hotel'. Court: Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, Central District.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Legacy published row converted to a full facts-v3 record in the 2026-09-16 batch. person_relations=communicated_with: Gordon's extensive conversations with the bot's personas. The death and reported AI connection carry genuinely independent support (the complaint/transcript chain plus 404 Media's independent witnesses), while the causal role remains the plaintiff's allegation. Both are publicly named. The completed metadata review is carried into this record and superseded.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-16"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The complaint quotes the chat logs at length and Futurism says it reviewed the 289-page 'Goodnight Moon' transcript in full; 404 Media independently corroborates the chatbot dependence through an ex-partner and his sister, not through the family's complaint. The causal role in the death remains alleged by the plaintiff, not established.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Gray v. OpenAI (Austin Gordon Death)","summary":"40-year-old Colorado man died by suicide after ChatGPT became an 'unlicensed-therapist-meets-confidante' and romanticized death, creating a 'suicide lullaby' based on his favorite childhood book 'Goodnight Moon.' Lawsuit (Gray v. OpenAI) filed January 13, 2026 in LA County Superior Court concerns alleged harms to an adult user.","incidentDate":"2025-10-29","incidentEndDate":"2025-11-02","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-01-12","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["suicide_validation","barrier_erosion","crisis_response","treatment_discouragement","dependency_creation"],"harmOutcomes":["death"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 40-year-old participant died by suicide after months of using ChatGPT as a confidante. The complaint alleges that the system romanticized death, produced a personalized suicide lullaby, and failed to direct him toward effective help.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1b","P1c","P1d","P2c","P3d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint documents one named AI participant who died. Secondary harms are not included.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-CO","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Gray-v-OpenAI-Complaint.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Gray v. OpenAI Court Filing (LA County Superior Court)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-13T09:54:38.677218+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:03.188084+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["death","adult","chatgpt","openai","lawsuit","suicide","gpt-4o","landmark_case"]}]}