{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-04T08:55:47.165Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"houston-county","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"contextual","evidence":"","year":"unknown","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":"2025-perry-georgia-police-officer-flock-alpr-repeated-plate-searches-co-workers-arrested","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'to look up a single license plate more than 4,000 times over a 16-month span'; 'That was one of six license plates she repeatedly searched'; 'Two of them were registered to cars owned by her co-workers'; 'another belonged to her daughter’s father'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"USA TODAY's analysis of Flock audit logs found that the officer looked up a single license plate more than 4,000 times over a 16-month span while employed by the Perry Police Department; it was one of six plates she repeatedly searched, two registered to cars owned by her co-workers and another belonging to her daughter's father.","causal_attribution":"USA TODAY's own analysis of audit logs; not independently replicated."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'left the Perry Police Department in April 2025'; 'as a school resource officer at a local high school'; 'continued making searches from her Perry police-issued Flock account for at least four months after she left, audit logs show'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She left the Perry Police Department in April 2025 to work for the Houston County Sheriff's Office as a school resource officer at a local high school and continued making searches from her Perry police-issued Flock account for at least four months after she left.","causal_attribution":"USA TODAY's reading of the audit logs."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Perry Police Department was not aware of the frequency with which'; 'After receiving your inquiry, we immediately began reviewing'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Perry police chief told USA TODAY in a 19 August 2026 email that, before the newspaper's inquiry, the department had not been aware of how often she was using Flock to search the plates, and that it had begun reviewing her Flock activity.","causal_attribution":"The chief's statement as quoted by USA TODAY."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'suspended her without pay on Aug. 17'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'was suspended without pay Monday pending termination after the sheriff’s office said an internal audit found she misused Flock Safety license plate reader data'; 'referred the matter to the district attorney’s office for criminal prosecution'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Houston County Sheriff's Office suspended her without pay, pending termination, on 17 August 2026 after an internal audit that it said found she had misused Flock license-plate-reader data, and referred the matter to the district attorney's office for prosecution.","causal_attribution":"The sheriff's office statement, relayed by 41NBC and USA TODAY; both rest on the sheriff, so this is not independent corroboration."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She was arrested two days later on charges of misusing a license plate reader system.'; 'A plea has not been entered in her case.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She was arrested on 19 August 2026 on charges of misusing a license plate reader system; no plea had been entered at the time of USA TODAY's report.","causal_attribution":"USA TODAY's report; no charging document was inspected and the allegations are unproven."}],"effects":[{"label":"their car plates repeatedly searched on the Flock license-plate-reader system by a police officer they knew","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/08/28/flock-camera-investigation-police-arrested-fired-surveillance/91383586007/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 from the eu.usatoday.com edition of the same article (28 August 2026). Rests on USA TODAY's own analysis of Flock audit logs and on statements from the Perry police chief and the Houston County sheriff.","independence_group":"usatoday-flock-analysis"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.41nbc.com/houston-county-sro-suspended-flock-data-misuse/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; 41NBC/WMGT, 17 August 2026). Relays the Houston County Sheriff's Office; does not mention the Perry searches or the people whose plates were searched. The suspension date in USA TODAY also comes from the sheriff, so the two are not independent on that point.","independence_group":"houston-county-sheriff-statements"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","work","relationships"],"unknowns":["The start and end months of the 16-month span; the first search date is not stated.","Whose plate was searched more than 4,000 times, and who owned the other plates.","Whether any of the people whose plates were searched has described an effect on them.","Which agency made the arrest, the exact charges, the court and any outcome."],"geography":{"basis":"The officer worked for the Perry Police Department and then the Houston County Sheriff's Office in Georgia (USA TODAY). The co-workers' residence is not stated; affected_person_countries US rests on their cars being searched on a Perry police Flock account and on the co-workers working with her in Georgia. The arrest and charges are in Georgia.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional privacy and safety case, consistent with the held Flock officer-misuse rows: USA TODAY's analysis of Flock audit logs shows a Perry, Georgia police officer repeatedly searched plates including two co-workers' cars and her daughter's father's, and she was suspended and arrested. The automated readers generated the plate-read records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. Neither the officer nor the people whose plates were searched is named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"USA TODAY says the officer looked up the plates on the Flock license-plate-reader system through a Perry police-issued Flock account, as shown in audit logs. The plate-read records about the cars were the system's output; the searches are recorded as the officer's own acts. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Perry, Georgia: a former police officer, by then a sheriff's school resource officer, is arrested; USA TODAY's analysis of Flock logs says she searched one plate more than 4,000 times and repeatedly searched co-workers' plates","summary":"USA TODAY's analysis of Flock Safety license-plate-reader audit logs found that an officer of the Perry Police Department in Georgia looked up a single license plate more than 4,000 times over 16 months. It was one of six plates she repeatedly searched; two were registered to cars owned by her co-workers and another belonged to her daughter's father. She left the department in April 2025 to become a school resource officer with the Houston County Sheriff's Office and kept searching from her Perry police-issued Flock account for at least four months afterwards, according to the logs. The Perry police chief told USA TODAY the department had not known how often she searched the plates before the newspaper asked. The sheriff's office suspended her without pay on 17 August 2026, and she was arrested two days later on charges of misusing a license plate reader system.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-28","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader system, searched through a Perry Police Department Flock account issued to the officer (USA TODAY analysis of audit logs)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to USA TODAY's analysis of Flock audit logs, a police officer repeatedly searched the car plates of two co-workers and her daughter's father, among six plates, including one plate more than 4,000 times over 16 months; she is charged with misusing a license plate reader system.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"USA TODAY says the officer repeatedly searched six plates, of which two were registered to cars owned by her co-workers and one belonged to her daughter's father: three described people. The owners of the other three plates, including whether the plate searched more than 4,000 times is one of the three described, are not stated. documented_minimum 3.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-GA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/08/28/flock-camera-investigation-police-arrested-fired-surveillance/91383586007/","primarySourceLabel":"USA TODAY, 28 August 2026: Our Flock camera investigation sparks police firings, arrests","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:21.063622+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:21.063622+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","co-worker","georgia","perry","houston-county","made-claim-about"]}]}