{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-04T08:01:14.989Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"location-tracking","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"contextual","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":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":"2026-hall-county-georgia-investigator-flock-alpr-tracked-person-known-fired","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'used the Flock system multiple times to find the whereabouts of a person she knew'; 'Officials said the searches were personal and had no connection to a legitimate law enforcement purpose.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'is accused of using the system to track a person “known to her.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'repeatedly used the agency’s Flock Safety system to track the whereabouts of someone she knew for personal reasons'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The sheriff's office Internal Affairs Unit determined that the investigator used the Flock system multiple times to find the whereabouts of a person the investigator knew, and officials said the searches were personal and had no connection to a legitimate law enforcement purpose.","causal_attribution":"The sheriff's office's internal finding, relayed by three outlets; no audit record was inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was terminated Wednesday, Sept. 2.'; 'Peace Officer Standards and Training Council and the Hall County Solicitor'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The press release did not mention any criminal charges.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The investigator was terminated on 2 September 2026, the third investigator fired during the agency's Flock audit, and the violations were referred to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council and the Hall County Solicitor's Office; the press release did not mention criminal charges.","causal_attribution":"The sheriff's office statement as relayed; ANF reports the referral to the POST Council only, FOX 5 adds the solicitor's office."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ultimately reviewed 758 Flock searches and flagged 85 as anomalous or suspicious'; 'reducing authorized users from 124 to 24'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"By 30 September 2026 the sheriff's office had reviewed 758 Flock searches and flagged 85 as anomalous or suspicious, and had reduced authorized users of the system from 124 to 24.","causal_attribution":"Now Georgia's account of sheriff's office statements; context for the audit that found this case."}],"effects":[{"label":"whereabouts searched repeatedly in police license-plate-reader records by a sheriff's investigator who knew them, for personal reasons","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/3rd-hall-county-investigator-fired-over-flock-camera-misuse","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team; 2 September 2026). Relays the sheriff's office statement.","independence_group":"hcso-2026-09-02-release"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/09/02/hall-county-deputy-fired-after-being-accused-misusing-flock-cameras/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; Atlanta News First staff; 2 September 2026). Relays the sheriff's office press release of that day.","independence_group":"hcso-2026-09-02-release"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://nowgeorgia.com/another-hall-county-investigator-fired-for-misuse-of-flock-safety-system/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; 2 September 2026). Relays the sheriff's office statement.","independence_group":"hcso-2026-09-02-release"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://nowgeorgia.com/breaking-former-hall-investigator-arrested-on-flock-misuse-oath-charges/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; 30 September 2026). An article on a different investigator's arrest that recaps this termination and gives audit totals from sheriff's office statements and records.","independence_group":"nowgeorgia-hall-audit-2026-09-30"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Who the person searched was and their relationship to the investigator.","When and how many times the searches were run.","Whether the person knew of the searches or experienced further consequences.","Whether criminal charges or POST Council action followed."],"geography":{"basis":"The investigator worked for the Hall County Sheriff's Office in Georgia and searched that agency's Flock system (sheriff's office release). The person searched is not identified and their residence is not stated, so affected_person_countries is left unknown. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional privacy case, consistent with the held Flock officer-misuse rows: the Hall County Sheriff's Office states that its Internal Affairs Unit found an investigator repeatedly used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system to find the whereabouts of a person the investigator knew, and fired the investigator. The finding is an internal determination; no charges are reported. The automated readers generated the location records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. Neither the investigator nor the person searched is named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Hall County Sheriff's Office states that its Internal Affairs Unit found the investigator used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system multiple times to find the whereabouts of a person the investigator knew. The plate-read records used to locate the person were the system's output, and the misuse was a human act. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Hall County, Georgia: a sheriff's investigator was fired in September 2026 after an internal audit found the investigator had repeatedly used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system to find the whereabouts of a person known to them","summary":"The Hall County Sheriff's Office in Georgia fired a property crimes investigator on 2 September 2026 after its Internal Affairs Unit determined that the investigator had used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system multiple times to find the whereabouts of a person the investigator knew. The sheriff's office said the searches were personal and had no connection to a legitimate law enforcement purpose. It was the third investigator fired during an audit of the agency's Flock use, and the sheriff's office said the violations would be referred to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council and the Hall County Solicitor's Office. The press release did not mention criminal charges, and the person searched was not identified.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-02","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader camera system operated by the Hall County Sheriff's Office, Georgia, searched by the investigator through agency access (sheriff's office release)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Hall County Sheriff's Office, an investigator repeatedly used the agency's Flock license-plate-reader system to find the whereabouts of a person the investigator knew, for personal reasons and without a law enforcement purpose.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, described by the sheriff's office as a person the investigator knew, whose whereabouts were searched (FOX 5; Atlanta News First; Now Georgia). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-GA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/3rd-hall-county-investigator-fired-over-flock-camera-misuse","primarySourceLabel":"FOX 5 Atlanta, 2 September 2026: 3rd Hall County investigator fired over Flock camera misuse","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:25:38.474764+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:25:38.474764+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","location-tracking","georgia","hall-county","gainesville","internal-audit","termination","made-claim-about"]}]}