{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-05T06:38:48.955Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"fayetteville","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":1,"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":"2022-fayetteville-north-carolina-rekor-alpr-car-linked-to-shooting-woman-handcuffed-interrogated-settlement","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'cameras caught a white sedan at the scene of a shooting that left a 19-year-old man hospitalized'; 'With the city’s license plate readers, police spotted'; 'That link was enough for Fayetteville detectives to issue a “be on the lookout” alert for her car, according to a police affidavit.'; 'whether it’s the Rekor system in Fayetteville'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"After a shooting in Fayetteville where cameras had recorded a white sedan, the newspaper reports that police using the city's license plate readers spotted the woman's white car a few minutes away; according to a police affidavit it cites, that link led detectives to issue an alert for her car. The newspaper identifies the city's reader system as Rekor.","causal_attribution":"The News & Observer, citing a police affidavit that was not read."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'five or six police cruisers surrounded her in the parking lot of a Fayetteville convenience store'; 'she was suddenly in handcuffs, accused of participating in a drive-by shooting'; 'describing that day in 2022'; 'handcuffed to a chair alone for an hour'; 'Police released her after several hours of interrogation when they realized they had the wrong person.'; 'After about four hours, police let'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In 2022 police cruisers surrounded the woman in a convenience store parking lot. She was handcuffed, accused of taking part in a drive-by shooting, left handcuffed to a chair alone for an hour in an interrogation room, and released after about four hours; the newspaper says police realized they had the wrong person.","causal_attribution":"The woman's account to The News & Observer and the newspaper's own summary."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The vehicle they photographed at the scene and a separate one with her license plate, she argued, were two different cars.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The woman told detectives that the car photographed at the scene and her own car were two different vehicles.","causal_attribution":"The woman's account as reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'for $60,000 after she accused police of violating her civil rights. According to the settlement agreement, the city did not admit to any wrongdoing.'; 'he said no one was demoted or fired as a result'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Fayetteville officials settled with the woman for $60,000 after she accused police of violating her civil rights, without admitting wrongdoing. A city spokesperson said no one was demoted or fired.","causal_attribution":"The settlement agreement and the city spokesperson as reported by The News & Observer; the agreement was not read."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'never made it to her goddaughter’s funeral'; 'When she arrived home, she retreated to her room.'; 'She had trouble focusing.'; 'She avoids the area where she was arrested'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The woman missed the funeral she had been preparing for, withdrew at home, had trouble focusing and avoids the area where she was arrested.","causal_attribution":"The News & Observer's narration, based on its interview with the woman."}],"effects":[{"label":"surrounded by police cars, handcuffed, accused of taking part in a drive-by shooting, interrogated and released after about four hours, after license plate readers placed her car near the scene","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article287381160.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-05 from an Internet Archive capture; the live page gave no response. The News & Observer, first published 2 May 2024, updated 8 January 2025. Rests on the newspaper's interview with the woman, her attorney, a police affidavit, the settlement agreement and a city spokesperson. The same article describes a separate Charlotte case, which is not part of this record.","independence_group":"newsobserver-nc-plate-reader-errors"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice"],"unknowns":["The date of the arrest within 2022.","How the license plate reader output was linked to the car recorded at the scene, and whether any plate was read there.","Whether a lawsuit was filed before the settlement.","Whether the department changed its procedures."],"geography":{"basis":"The arrest was made by Fayetteville, North Carolina police in a Fayetteville parking lot, and the newspaper describes the woman as from Hope Mills (The News & Observer).","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional-use case consistent with the held license-plate-reader rows. The News & Observer reports, from its interview with the woman, a police affidavit and the settlement agreement, that Fayetteville police used license plate readers to link her car to a shooting, arrested and interrogated her for hours, and later paid $60,000. One source, so every claim is reported. The woman is named and pictured by the newspaper and is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The News & Observer reports that Fayetteville police, using the city's automated license plate readers, spotted the woman's car a few minutes from a shooting scene where cameras had recorded a white sedan, and that detectives then issued an alert for her car, citing a police affidavit. The newspaper identifies Fayetteville's reader system as Rekor. It does not describe how the reader output was matched to the car at the scene.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Fayetteville, North Carolina: police handcuffed and interrogated a woman for hours in 2022 after license plate readers placed her car near a shooting scene; the city later settled with her for $60,000","summary":"The News & Observer reported in May 2024 that Fayetteville police wrongly linked a woman to a drive-by shooting in 2022. Cameras had recorded a white sedan at the scene. The newspaper reports that police using the city's license plate readers spotted her white car a few minutes away and that, according to a police affidavit, detectives then issued an alert for it. Days later, police cruisers surrounded her in a convenience store parking lot as she was on her way to get ready for a funeral. She was handcuffed, accused of taking part in the shooting, and left handcuffed to a chair alone for an hour in an interrogation room. She told detectives her car and the car photographed at the scene were different vehicles. Police released her after about four hours. The city later settled with her for $60,000 without admitting wrongdoing, and a city spokesperson said no one was demoted or fired. The newspaper reports that she missed the funeral, had trouble focusing and avoids the area.","incidentDate":"2022-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2024-05-02","aiSystem":"Automated license plate readers used by the Fayetteville Police Department, described by The News & Observer in 2024 as the Rekor system, which placed the woman's car a few minutes from a shooting scene","aiProduct":"Rekor license plate readers (reported)","aiCompany":"Rekor","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The News & Observer reports, from its interview with the woman, that she was handcuffed, accused of a drive-by shooting and held for about four hours, that she missed a funeral, and that she afterwards had trouble focusing and avoids the area where she was arrested.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the woman who was arrested and interrogated (The News & Observer). 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