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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-morristown-tennessee-flock-alpr-stolen-alert-vanity-plate-grandparents-handcuffed-gunpoint","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'both police officers had guns drawn on me as I was doing that,'; 'To be treated that way at gunpoint, handcuffed, humiliated,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Officers handcuffed them both, while'; 'After the couple was handcuffed, it was discovered that the vehicle identification number on the Expedition'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Morristown police stopped the couple, held them at gunpoint and handcuffed them both, while their 3-year-old granddaughter remained in the car.","causal_attribution":"The couple's account to WATE; police records reviewed by Business Insider record the handcuffing and the high-risk stop, and the department told WATE that high-risk protocol is common in felony investigations."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The officers received a Flock alert that the plate was stolen.'; 'It had already been recovered, but it was never removed from the system.'; 'their license plate number was recorded as a zero, not the letter O.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'In Claiborne County, a Ford F-150 was reported stolen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Officers received a Flock alert that the plate was stolen; the Flock summary recorded the couple's plate with a zero instead of the letter O, matching a stolen pickup that had already been recovered but was never removed from the system.","causal_attribution":"Business Insider from police records; WATE confirms the stolen pickup but does not mention Flock."},{"id":"c3","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'However, using either character, the license plate shows as a stolen vehicle in the crime information database.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'officers used information from the National Crime Information Center (a state database, not the license plate reader database) as our protocol requires'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The police department says the officer ran the tag as displayed, with an O, and that with either character the plate shows as stolen in the crime information database; the chief says officers relied on the National Crime Information Center as protocol requires.","causal_attribution":"Police account; it disputes that the license-plate reader determined the stop, against Business Insider's account of the Flock alert."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I really thought if I get shot today'; 'I had a laser beam on my chest at one point,'; 'so I was crying,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The grandfather said he thought he might be shot and felt humiliated; the grandmother said she had a laser sight on her chest at one point and was crying as she heard her granddaughter calling for her.","causal_attribution":"Their own account to WATE."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She has regressed to sleeping with her parents'; 'didn’t want to get in my vehicle'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The grandmother told WATE that since the stop the granddaughter has regressed to sleeping with her parents, keeps repeating 'baby in the car', and did not want to get into her vehicle.","causal_attribution":"The grandmother's account to WATE."}],"effects":[{"label":"both grandparents held at gunpoint and handcuffed while their 3-year-old granddaughter stayed in the car","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"grandfather feared being shot and felt humiliated; grandmother says she was crying","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"3-year-old granddaughter left alone in the car; her grandmother says she has since regressed and is afraid to get into the vehicle","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wate.com/news/top-stories/couple-handcuffed-in-morristown-due-to-license-plate-mix-up/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-04 from the Internet Archive 2026 capture (WATE, June 2025; Google News dates it 11 June 2025); the live site returned HTTP 403. Interview with the couple and a police department statement; does not mention Flock.","independence_group":"wate-morristown-interview"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/flock-safety-alpr-cameras-misreads-2026-3","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-04 (Business Insider, 9 March 2026); full text present in the served page. Draws on police records including the Flock investigative summary, an interview and the police chief.","independence_group":"business-insider-records-review"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice"],"unknowns":["The exact date of the stop; WATE says a Monday morning and Business Insider says June 2025.","Whether the Flock camera misread the letter O as a zero or matched a hotlist entry under a normalized character; Business Insider reports only that the summary recorded a zero.","Whether any complaint or claim was filed."],"geography":{"basis":"The stop was made by Morristown, Tennessee, police (WATE; Business Insider); the couple are described as earlier stopped in Bean Station and visited at home by officers, both in East Tennessee. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional-use case: WATE reports the couple's account of being held at gunpoint and handcuffed with their granddaughter in the car, and Business Insider reports from police records that a Flock alert flagged the plate and recorded it with a zero. The police say the stop rested on the crime information database; that dispute is recorded. None of the family is named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Business Insider, citing police records, reports that officers received a Flock alert that the plate was stolen and that the Flock summary recorded the plate with a zero; the deputy chief's earlier email warned that Flock misreads plates. The police department says the officer confirmed the hit in the crime information database, where the plate shows as stolen with either character, and the chief says officers relied on that database. The stale stolen-vehicle record and the armed stop were human and institutional decisions; how far the reader's alert determined the stop is disputed.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Morristown, Tennessee: police held a grandmother and grandfather at gunpoint and handcuffed them in June 2025, with their 3-year-old granddaughter left in the car, after a Flock alert flagged the grandmother's vanity plate, which matched a recovered stolen pickup's plate spelled with a zero; police say the stop rested on the crime database","summary":"In June 2025 Morristown, Tennessee, police stopped a couple driving their 3-year-old granddaughter to a doctor's appointment, held them at gunpoint and handcuffed them both. The grandmother's personalized plate spelled a nickname with the letter O; a Ford F-150 reported stolen in Claiborne County carried the same word spelled with a zero. Business Insider reported in March 2026 that officers received a Flock alert that the plate was stolen, that the Flock investigative summary recorded the couple's plate with a zero, and that the stolen pickup had already been recovered but was never removed from the system. The police department told WATE that the officer ran the tag as displayed, with an O, and that with either character it showed as stolen in the crime information database; the police chief told Business Insider that officers relied on the National Crime Information Center as protocol requires. The grandfather told WATE that he thought he might be shot and felt humiliated, and the grandmother said she was crying as she heard her granddaughter calling for her.","incidentDate":"2025-06-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-06-11","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader camera system whose alert flagged the couple's plate as stolen and whose investigative summary recorded the plate with a zero for the letter O (Business Insider, citing police records)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Both grandparents were held at gunpoint and handcuffed while their 3-year-old granddaughter stayed in the car; the grandfather said he feared being shot and felt humiliated, and the grandmother said she was crying (WATE; Business Insider). The grandmother says the granddaughter has since regressed to sleeping with her parents and did not want to get into her vehicle (WATE). Police dispute that the license-plate reader determined the stop.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Three people: the grandparents, both held at gunpoint and handcuffed (WATE; Business Insider), and their 3-year-old granddaughter, left terrified and alone in the car (Business Insider), who the grandmother says has since regressed to sleeping with her parents and did not want to get into her vehicle (WATE). Exact 3.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-TN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wate.com/news/top-stories/couple-handcuffed-in-morristown-due-to-license-plate-mix-up/","primarySourceLabel":"WATE 6 On Your Side, June 2025: Couple handcuffed in Morristown due to license plate mix-up","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:32:02.866389+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:32:02.866389+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","vanity-plate","stale-hotlist","wrongful-stop","gunpoint","tennessee","morristown","justice","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2025-baltimore-county-md-school-ai-gun-alert-chip-bag-student-searched","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"after an AI-driven security system flagged the teen's empty bag of chips as a possible firearm","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"How did it come to be that we had police officers with guns drawn approaching a kid because of a bag of Doritos?","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Omnilert AI Gun Detection System warned school leaders at Kenwood High School that a student had a gun.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Police officers responded to the school, searched the individual, and quickly confirmed that they were not in possession of any weapons.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"An AI gun detection system (Omnilert) alerted on a Kenwood High School student in Baltimore County, the object was a bag of chips and not a weapon, and police searched the student.","causal_attribution":"The reports connect the police response to the alert. The district and the vendor say the system operated as designed and that humans review alerts, so responsibility for the police response is contested between the system, the review steps and the responding staff."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back, and cuffed me,","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"they had a gun pointed at me","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"handcuffed and searched","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The student reported being made to kneel, being handcuffed and searched, and having a gun pointed at them.","causal_attribution":"First-person account given to a local television station and relayed by the CNN wire and the Guardian (one chain). CNN also states the handcuffing in its own voice without naming a source other than the student interview. Police statements inspected confirm a search only."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"reviewed and canceled the gun detection alert after confirming there was no weapon","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The principal didn't immediately realize the alert had been canceled","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"she reported the matter to Kenwood's school resource officer, who called local police for support","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The Department of School Safety and Security reviewed and canceled the initial alert after confirming there was no weapon.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The school district security department reviewed and canceled the alert after confirming there was no weapon. A district spokesperson said the principal did not immediately realize the alert had been canceled. The principal reported the matter to the school resource officer, who called police.","causal_attribution":"Account of the review sequence comes from the principal letter and district spokespeople. It attributes the police response to a communication gap after human review and does not exonerate the alert."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Baltimore County officials say they want a review of the process that led to Monday's police response.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Baltimore County councilmembers are calling on school officials and police to review an A.I. gun detection system","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Our counselors will provide direct support to the students who were involved in this incident","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"County councilmembers called for a review of the AI system, and the school said counselors would support the students involved.","causal_attribution":"Institutional responses reported by the outlets. The outcome of any review is not established in the inspected sources."}],"effects":[{"label":"Student searched by armed police after a false AI weapon alert","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://abc7.com/post/student-handcuffed-doritos-bag-mistaken-gun-schools-ai-security-system-baltimore-county-maryland/18073796/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"wbal-relay"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/baltimore-student-ai-gun-detection-system-doritos","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"wbal-relay"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/false-alarm-gun-detection-kenwood-maryland-artificial-intelligence-review/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"wjz-cbs-baltimore"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["education","public_services"],"unknowns":["Event date is derived from the reports' \"Monday\" references relative to their publication dates (23 to 26 October 2025). The inspected bodies do not print the calendar date of the event.","The handcuffing and gun-pointing account is one first-person account relayed by two outlets, and CNN also states the handcuffing in its own voice without another named source. Police statements inspected confirm only a search after a report of a suspicious person with a weapon.","The outcome of the county review is not reported in the inspected sources.","The student's exact age is not stated. Sources call the student a teen and a child.","Vendor and district statements say the system worked as designed and that humans review alerts. Whether the review step or the alert caused the police dispatch is not settled."],"geography":{"basis":"The reports place the event at a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, with the county police department and county council responding. Country is stated by place names in the inspected reports and is not inferred from outlet or vendor headquarters.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Three news reports read in full (one via Internet Archive capture). The AI alert, the absence of a weapon and the search are separately reported. The handcuffing account is attributed to the student. The student's name is omitted because the student is a minor.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Two separately reported chains say the AI alert flagged the object: the CNN wire with a vendor statement (its student account is WBAL-derived, as is the Guardian, a WBAL relay), and local CBS reporting with vendor and superintendent statements. Both also report human review steps between the alert and the police response.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Baltimore County, Maryland: school AI gun alert on a bag of chips leads to police search of a student","summary":"On a Monday evening in October 2025 (20 October by the reports' weekday references) an AI gun detection system (Omnilert) used at Kenwood High School alerted on a student holding an empty bag of chips. Police responded and searched the student and found no weapon. The student told a local television station that officers made them kneel, handcuffed them and pointed a gun at them. The school district says its security department reviewed and canceled the alert after confirming there was no weapon, and a district spokesperson said the principal did not immediately realize the alert had been canceled. County councilmembers called for a review. No outcome of a review is established in the sources.","incidentDate":"2025-10-20","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-10-23","aiSystem":"Omnilert AI Gun Detection System (video analytics on school security cameras)","aiProduct":"Omnilert gun detection","aiCompany":"Omnilert","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A student was searched by police after the AI alert and reported being handcuffed at gunpoint and fearing for their life (student account relayed by CNN and the Guardian). The school letter confirms a search and offers counseling.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One student who was searched. Other students who witnessed the event are mentioned in the school letter but are not counted without a reported harm to each.","victimAgeRange":"minor","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/false-alarm-gun-detection-kenwood-maryland-artificial-intelligence-review/","primarySourceLabel":"CBS Baltimore (WJZ): A.I. gun detection false alarm at school has Baltimore County leaders calling for review, 23 October 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T12:42:19.255568+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:56.487109+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]},{"id":"2025-jacksonville-sheriff-facial-recognition-wrongful-arrest-father-operation-rescue-our-children","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'When investigators ran a search on the photos of the man with dark brown hair, it led them to'; 'Investigators told Nick they relied on facial recognition tools to identify him in the pictures, he recalled.'; 'The officers walked over to the man and told him to place his hands behind his back, slapping him in cuffs in front of customers and coworkers.'; 'An investigation by The Trib reveals the 38-year-old was arrested'; 'On May 14, 2025, court records show that'; 'logged on to the Skout online dating app with the username'; 'Nick’s arrest came in conjunction with a multi-agency sting called Operation Rescue Our Children'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"After a man on the Skout app sent two photos of a former friend to an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old during Operation Rescue Our Children in May 2025, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office investigators ran a search on the photos that led them to the friend, a 38-year-old supermarket assistant manager, and arrested him at work six days after the conversation ended; he recalls being told investigators relied on facial-recognition tools to identify him.","causal_attribution":"The Trib's investigation from court records and the man's recollection; the sheriff's office did not respond. The Trib's expert source attributes the arrest chiefly to inadequate policing."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'There is no indication in the court documents that officers carried out any other investigative work before arresting Nick, beyond verifying that he was the person in the photos'; 'Court records show that the day after Nick’s arrest, investigators issued the first of a string of subpoenas for account information behind the suspect’s online profile'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Trib found no indication in the court documents of any investigative work before the arrest beyond verifying that he was the person in the photos; it reports that court records show investigators subpoenaed the account information the day after the arrest, and that the information showed the account belonged to another man.","causal_attribution":"The Trib's reading of court records; the records themselves were not read."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'costing them $45,000 in lost wages and legal fees and traumatizing his kids.'; 'A judge barred him from having any contact with the children for a month and a half'; 'And for nearly three months, he wasn’t able to reside at his family’s home'; 'The $105 a week for the court-ordered ankle monitor that tracked his every move.'; 'Forced to spend the night in jail'; 'The rent they couldn’t pay while Nick was suspended from his job.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He spent a night in jail, was barred by a judge from any contact with his two children for a month and a half, could not live at home for nearly three months, wore a court-ordered ankle monitor and was suspended from his job; the family says the ordeal cost $45,000 in lost wages and legal fees and traumatised the children.","causal_attribution":"The family's account to the Trib."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'at his home on July 31, 2025, and he confessed to propositioning someone he thought was a young girl'; 'But the next day, prosecutors finally dropped the charges against Nick. On Aug. 4, 2025, a judge ordered Nick’s case expunged because the arrest was made “contrary to law or by mistake.”'; 'remained publicly available on the Duval courts website for more than a year after the judge ordered the records expunged.'; 'admitted to using photos of other people'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The account's owner confessed on 31 July 2025 to using photos of former friends; prosecutors dropped the charges the next day and on 4 August 2025 a judge ordered the case expunged, but the records remained publicly available on the Duval County clerk's website for more than a year.","causal_attribution":"Court records as reported by the Trib; the clerk's office acknowledged the failure to expunge."}],"effects":[{"label":"arrested at work, jailed overnight and charged with soliciting a child after investigators identified him from photos an impostor sent in a police sting","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"barred from contact with his two young children for a month and a half, fitted with an ankle monitor and suspended from work; the family puts the cost at $45,000","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://floridatrib.org/2026/09/28/how-ai-powered-bungling-by-florida-cops-cost-a-father-his-freedom-and-45000/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-29 in full (The Florida Trib, 28 September 2026, investigation by Kate Payne based on court records and interviews). Republished by the Florida Phoenix, which returned HTTP 403 and was not read.","independence_group":"florida-trib-investigation"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice","relationships","finance","work"],"unknowns":["Which facial-recognition system was used and what match result it returned.","Whether the sheriff's office has reviewed the arrest or disciplined anyone (the Trib reports the lead detective applied for deferred retirement).","Whether the man will bring a legal claim."],"geography":{"basis":"The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office arrested the man at a Jacksonville supermarket; the case was in Duval County, Florida (The Florida Trib).","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a contextual case consistent with the existing facial-recognition wrongful-arrest rows: investigators identified a man through a search of photos an impostor sent in a sting, which he recalls being told used facial-recognition tools, and arrested him without further checks. The account rests on one investigative report drawing on court records and interviews; the sheriff's office did not respond. The man is pseudonymous in the source and his family is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The man recalls that investigators told him they relied on facial-recognition tools to identify him in the photos, and the Trib reports that investigators ran a search on the photos that led them to him. The Trib names FACESNXT as the system Jacksonville investigators use but does not establish that it was the tool run here. The decisions to seek a warrant and arrest without further investigation were the officers', prosecutors' and a judge's. The Trib's headline and narrative state in its own voice that officers relied on 'artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition tools'; the only sourcing it gives for that link is his recollection, and it cites no facial-recognition result from the court records.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Jacksonville, Florida: a 38-year-old father was arrested at work in May 2025 and charged with soliciting a child after sheriff's investigators identified him, he says with facial-recognition tools, from photos an impostor had sent to an undercover officer; charges were dropped in August 2025 after the real sender confessed, and the family says the ordeal cost $45,000","summary":"The Florida Trib (28 September 2026, republished by the Florida Phoenix) reports that in May 2025, during the multi-agency sting Operation Rescue Our Children, a man using the Skout dating app sent an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl two photos of someone else: a former friend, a supermarket assistant manager and father of two whom the Trib calls 'Nick'. Investigators told him they relied on facial-recognition tools to identify him in the pictures, he recalled, and the Trib found no indication in court documents of other investigative work before his arrest. He was handcuffed at work, charged with soliciting a child via computer and unlawful use of a two-way communications device, spent a night in jail, wore an ankle monitor, was barred from contact with his two young children for a month and a half and could not live at home for nearly three months. The account's owner, a man with a prior conviction for the same offence, admitted on 31 July 2025 using the photos; charges against the father were dropped the next day and a judge ordered the case expunged on 4 August 2025, though the records stayed publicly online for more than a year. The family says the ordeal cost $45,000 in lost wages and legal fees and traumatised the children. The sheriff's office did not respond to the Trib's questions.","incidentDate":"2025-05-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-09-28","aiSystem":"Facial-recognition search tools used by Jacksonville Sheriff's Office investigators to identify the man in photos sent during the sting (per his recollection of what investigators told him); the Trib notes that Jacksonville and other Florida agencies use the FACESNXT system maintained by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, but does not state which tool was run in this case","aiProduct":"Unidentified facial recognition system","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty","legal_harm","financial_loss","relationship_disruption","psychological_distress","reputational_harm","professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The man was arrested, jailed overnight, charged with child-sex offences, monitored and separated from his children for weeks; he and his wife told The Florida Trib the ordeal cost $45,000 in lost wages and legal fees and traumatised their children.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The arrested man and his two young children, whom the Trib reports were traumatised and separated from him (The Florida Trib). His wife describes her own distress and the financial burden; she is not added separately. Documented minimum 3.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-FL","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://floridatrib.org/2026/09/28/how-ai-powered-bungling-by-florida-cops-cost-a-father-his-freedom-and-45000/","primarySourceLabel":"The Florida Trib, 28 September 2026: How AI-powered bungling by Florida cops cost a father his freedom and $45,000","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T03:21:41.436188+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:07.027222+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["facial-recognition","wrongful-arrest","jacksonville","florida","sting-operation","impersonation","justice","made-claim-about"]}]}