{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-05T06:38:52.852Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"greenville","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-greenville-south-carolina-license-plate-reader-stale-stolen-entry-rental-car-sisters-handcuffed-lawsuit","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'they were handcuffed by police after they drove past a license plate camera in a rental car that was reported stolen'; 'were stopped by Greenville Police on Feb. 15, 2022, in a car they rented from'; 'drawing their guns and handcuffing the sisters before placing them in the back of a police car, the suit says'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the sisters' lawsuit, Greenville Police stopped them on 15 February 2022 in a car they had rented a day earlier, after they drove past a license plate camera while the car was listed as stolen. Three officers drew their guns, handcuffed both sisters and placed them in the back of a police car.","causal_attribution":"Allegations in the lawsuit as reported by The Post and Courier."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'confirmed it was reported stolen on Jan. 27, but that they called police the next day to let them know the car was returned, according to the lawsuit'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the lawsuit, a rental company employee told an officer by phone that the car had been reported stolen on 27 January and that the company had called police the next day to say it had been returned.","causal_attribution":"Allegation in the lawsuit; the rental company could not be reached by the newspaper."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Police released the sisters from custody and made sure to contact dispatch to remove the car from the stolen vehicle database, the suit says.'; 'The lawsuit claims either the police failed to remove the car from the database after being called or that the rental car company forgot to call.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police released the sisters and contacted dispatch to remove the car from the stolen vehicle database, the lawsuit says. It claims that either police failed to remove the car after being called or the rental company did not call.","causal_attribution":"Allegations in the lawsuit as reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Trained dispatchers, not individual officers, specifically add and remove items from the stolen vehicle database'; 'The database updates with the license plate cameras every six hours'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A Greenville Police sergeant said trained dispatchers add and remove entries in the stolen vehicle database and that the database updates with the license plate cameras every six hours.","causal_attribution":"The sergeant's comments to The Post and Courier."}],"effects":[{"label":"two sisters stopped by officers with guns drawn, handcuffed and placed in a police car after a license plate camera flagged their rental car on a stolen-vehicle entry that had not been removed","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.postandcourier.com/greenville/news/license-plate-readers-rental-car-lawsuit-stolen-south-carolina-greenville-alpr/article_0a0c8da4-cb47-11ee-b853-ef14200492d2.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-05 from an Internet Archive capture of 5 March 2024 (The Post and Courier Greenville, 4 March 2024). Rests on the sisters' lawsuit and a Greenville Police sergeant's comments to the newspaper; the complaint was not read.","independence_group":"postandcourier-greenville-lawsuit"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice"],"unknowns":["The vendor of the license plate camera and what its alert showed.","Whether the stolen-vehicle entry was left in place by police or never withdrawn by the rental company.","How long the sisters were held.","The outcome of the lawsuit."],"geography":{"basis":"Greenville Police stopped two Greenville sisters in a car rented from a Greenville-based company, and the sisters sued over the stop (The Post and Courier).","court_countries":["US"],"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 stale-hotlist rows. The Post and Courier reports a lawsuit in which two sisters say officers drew guns, handcuffed them and put them in a police car after a license plate camera flagged their rental car on a stolen-vehicle entry that should have been cleared. The account rests on the lawsuit, so every claim is reported and causation is alleged. The sisters are named in the article and are not named here. The vendor is unidentified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Post and Courier reports, from the lawsuit, that the sisters were stopped after driving past a license plate camera in a rental car listed as stolen, and a Greenville Police sergeant told the newspaper that the stolen vehicle database updates with the license plate cameras every six hours. The article does not name the camera vendor or describe its technology. The article's summary line calls the device a license plate reader. It reports no misreading of the plate: the rental company employee confirmed that the car had been reported stolen on 27 January, and the lawsuit disputes why the entry was still in the database.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Greenville, South Carolina: two sisters say police drew guns and handcuffed them in February 2022 after a license plate camera flagged their rental car, which was still listed as stolen after being returned; they sued Greenville police","summary":"The Post and Courier reported in March 2024 that two Greenville sisters had sued over a stop by Greenville Police on 15 February 2022. According to the lawsuit, they drove past a license plate camera in a car they had rented a day earlier, which was listed as stolen. Three officers stopped them, drew their guns, handcuffed both and placed them in the back of a police car. The driver showed an officer the rental agreement. According to the lawsuit, a rental company employee told an officer that the car had been reported stolen on 27 January and that the company had called police the next day to say it had been returned. Police released the sisters and asked dispatch to remove the car from the stolen vehicle database, the suit says. The lawsuit says either police failed to remove the entry or the company did not call. A police sergeant told the newspaper that dispatchers maintain the database and that it updates with the license plate cameras every six hours.","incidentDate":"2022-02-15","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2024-03-04","aiSystem":"License plate camera used by the Greenville Police Department and linked to its stolen vehicle database (The Post and Courier, from the lawsuit and a police sergeant); vendor not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified license plate reader","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to their lawsuit as reported by The Post and Courier, the two sisters were stopped by three officers with guns drawn, handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car before being released.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people, the sisters in the rental car, both handcuffed and placed in a police car according to the lawsuit (The Post and Courier). Exact 2.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-SC","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.postandcourier.com/greenville/news/license-plate-readers-rental-car-lawsuit-stolen-south-carolina-greenville-alpr/article_0a0c8da4-cb47-11ee-b853-ef14200492d2.html","primarySourceLabel":"The Post and Courier Greenville, 4 March 2024: A license plate camera wrongly tagged car as stolen. Sisters sue Greenville police for arrest","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:25:18.55121+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T03:25:18.55121+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["alpr","license-plate-reader","stale-hotlist","rental-car","wrongful-stop","guns-drawn","south-carolina","greenville","justice","made-claim-about","lawsuit"]}]}