{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-04T08:57:44.590Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"milwaukee","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"contextual","evidence":"","year":"2024","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":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":"2024-milwaukee-police-internal-affairs-detective-flock-alpr-tracking-gps-device-charged","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'charged Wednesday with misconduct in public office — a felony — and misuse of a GPS device.'; 'a detective assigned to the internal affairs division'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"On 8 July 2026 a Milwaukee Police Department detective assigned to the internal affairs division was charged with misconduct in public office, a felony, and misuse of a GPS device.","causal_attribution":"Charges as reported by WPR; the conduct remains alleged."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'had used the camera system 17 times from January 10, 2024 through January 3, 2025 to search a license plate for the vehicle of one person.'; 'had also admitted to installing a GPS device on that person’s vehicle.'; 'searched a license plate for another person three times on January 7, 2025, listing “training” as the reason for the search.'; 'admitted to using the Flock camera system 20 times to “track the whereabouts” of two people.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the complaint as reported by WPR, the detective searched one person's license plate in the Flock system 17 times from 10 January 2024 to 3 January 2025 and another person's plate three times on 7 January 2025, listing training as the reason for those three searches, and admitted using the Flock system to track the whereabouts of the two people and installing a GPS device on the first person's vehicle.","causal_attribution":"Prosecution's allegations, including admissions it attributes to the detective, as relayed by WPR."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'conducted the investigation into Officer'; 'misuse of the Flock system.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The detective had conducted the investigation into an earlier Milwaukee officer's misuse of the Flock system.","causal_attribution":"Complaint as relayed by WPR."}],"effects":[{"label":"vehicle's whereabouts tracked through 17 license-plate-reader searches; the detective admitted installing a GPS device on it","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wpr.org/news/member-milwaukee-police-department-misuse-of-license-plate-reader-system","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-04 (Wisconsin Public Radio, 9 July 2026). Reports the criminal complaint and adds statements from the police chief, a Milwaukee Fire and Police commissioner, the ACLU of Wisconsin and Flock.","independence_group":"wpr-milwaukee-complaint-report"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["How the GPS device's location data was used.","Whether the second person knew of or was affected by the three searches.","The outcome of the prosecution.","How the two people are connected to the detective; the reporting does not say.","When the GPS device was installed and how long it remained on the vehicle."],"geography":{"basis":"The searches were made by a detective of the Milwaukee Police Department's internal affairs division in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (WPR). WPR reports the charges and an initial court appearance set for 17 July but does not name the court. Where the two people live is not reported.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional privacy and safety case, consistent with the held Flock officer-misuse rows: WPR, reporting the criminal complaint, states that a police detective searched one person's plate in the Flock license-plate-reader system 17 times and admitted tracking two people and installing a GPS device on one person's vehicle. The charges are allegations. Neither the detective nor the people tracked are named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"WPR, reporting the criminal complaint, says the detective admitted using the Flock camera system to track the whereabouts of two people and lists his plate searches by date. The plate-read location records were the automated system's output about the people's vehicles; the searches and the GPS device were the detective's acts. WPR does not describe the readers as AI.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Milwaukee: a police internal-affairs detective was charged in July 2026 with misconduct in public office after, according to the criminal complaint, he searched one person's license plate in the department's Flock license-plate-reader system 17 times between January 2024 and January 2025 and admitted putting a GPS device on that person's vehicle","summary":"Wisconsin Public Radio reported on 9 July 2026 that a Milwaukee Police Department detective assigned to the internal affairs division had been charged that week with misconduct in public office, a felony, and misuse of a GPS device. According to the criminal complaint as reported by WPR, he searched one person's license plate in the department's Flock license-plate-reader system 17 times between 10 January 2024 and 3 January 2025, searched another person's plate three times on 7 January 2025 listing 'training' as the reason, and admitted using the Flock system to track the whereabouts of the two people and installing a GPS device on the first person's vehicle. The detective had conducted the department's investigation into an earlier Milwaukee officer's Flock misuse, and had been suspended since 13 March 2026. The charges are allegations; he had not yet appeared in court on them when WPR reported.","incidentDate":"2024-01-10","incidentEndDate":"2025-01-07","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-07-09","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader camera system used by the Milwaukee Police Department, whose plate-read records the detective searched for location information on two people (WPR, reporting the criminal complaint)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"One person's license plate was searched 17 times in the Flock system, which the detective admitted using to track the whereabouts of two people, and, according to the complaint, he admitted installing a GPS device on that person's vehicle; a second person's plate was searched three times (WPR, reporting the criminal complaint). The charges are allegations; he had not yet appeared in court on them when WPR reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"At least one person: the person whose plate was searched 17 times and on whose vehicle the detective admitted installing a GPS device (WPR, reporting the complaint). A second person's plate was searched three times; WPR does not describe harm to that person, so the minimum is 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-WI","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wpr.org/news/member-milwaukee-police-department-misuse-of-license-plate-reader-system","primarySourceLabel":"Wisconsin Public Radio, 9 July 2026: Second member of the Milwaukee Police Department charged with misuse of license plate reader system","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:38:12.586234+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:38:12.586234+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","stalking","gps-tracker","internal-affairs","wisconsin","milwaukee","criminal-charges","privacy","made-claim-about"]}]}