{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-04T09:48:47.047Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"milwaukee","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2025","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":"2025-milwaukee-police-officer-flock-alpr-tracking-partner-and-ex-restraining-orders-probation","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'he looked up the license plate of his dating partner more than 120 times between March 26 and May 26 of 2025.'; 'He also looked at a second license plate that belonged to that person’s former partner 55 times in the same time period.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Prosecutors say he searched the license plates of the pair a total of 179 times.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Between 26 March and 26 May 2025 a Milwaukee police officer looked up the plate of the person he was dating more than 120 times and that person's former partner's plate 55 times in the Flock system, listing 'investigation' as the reason; prosecutors put the total at 179 searches.","causal_attribution":"Criminal complaint as relayed by Spectrum News and prosecutors as quoted by WISN; the officer pleaded guilty to attempted misconduct."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A court commissioner granted the restraining orders, which will take effect for four years.'; 'This was not a lapse in judgment; it was a continual, repetitive, obsessive behavior.'; 'in a constant state of fear and unease.'; 'I feared for my safety.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Both people obtained four-year restraining orders; the woman wrote that his tracking was continual, repetitive, obsessive behavior and that she lives in a constant state of fear and unease, and the other person wrote that he feared for his safety.","causal_attribution":"The victims' own petitions as quoted by WISN; the woman's petition also describes other behavior not detailed in the report."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'He took a plea deal and pleaded guilty to the charge on June 11.'; 'sentenced to 13 months of probation and fined $500.'; 'no contact with both victims in the case'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He pleaded guilty on 11 June 2026 and was sentenced to 13 months of probation and a $500 fine, with no contact with both victims.","causal_attribution":"Court outcome as reported; FOX6 (read privately) reports one year of probation."}],"effects":[{"label":"locations tracked through repeated license-plate-reader searches by a police officer","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"one says she lives in a constant state of fear and unease; the other says he feared for his safety","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wisn.com/article/court-grants-restraining-orders-against-ex-cop-who-stalked-ex-with-flock-cameras/71709296","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-04 from the Internet Archive 2026 capture (WISN, published 24 June 2026); the live site returned HTTP 451. Reports the restraining-order hearing and quotes the two petitions.","independence_group":"milwaukee-restraining-order-petitions"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2026/07/15/former-mpd-officer-misuse-flock-cameras-sentencing","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-04 (Spectrum News 1 Wisconsin, 15 July 2026). Reports the sentence and the criminal complaint's search counts.","independence_group":"milwaukee-county-complaint-and-sentencing"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["Whether the probation term is one year or 13 months; reports differ.","The other behavior the woman described in her petition.","The criminal case number."],"geography":{"basis":"The officer worked for the Milwaukee Police Department and the case and restraining orders were heard in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (WISN; Spectrum News). The victims' residence is not stated; affected_person_countries US rests on their petitions in a Milwaukee court and their law-enforcement work there.","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: the officer pleaded guilty after searching two people's plates in the Flock license-plate-reader system 179 times, and both obtained restraining orders, citing fear (WISN; Spectrum News). Neither the officer nor the victims are named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Spectrum News, citing the criminal complaint, reports that the officer looked up the two people's plates in the Flock system over 120 and 55 times; the woman's petition (WISN) says he used the department's Flock system to track her whereabouts, and the officer pleaded guilty. The plate-read location records were the automated system's output about their vehicles; the searches were the officer's acts. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Milwaukee: a police officer searched the plates of the person he was dating and that person's former partner about 179 times in the department's Flock license-plate-reader system in 2025; both obtained restraining orders, one saying she lives in a constant state of fear, and he was sentenced to probation in July 2026","summary":"Between 26 March and 26 May 2025 a Milwaukee police officer used the department's Flock license-plate-reader system to look up the plates of the person he was dating and of that person's former partner, listing 'investigation' as the reason each time. Prosecutors say he searched the pair's plates 179 times in all. He was charged with misconduct in February 2026, resigned, and pleaded guilty on 11 June 2026 to attempted misconduct in public office. In June a court commissioner granted both people four-year restraining orders against him; the woman wrote in her petition that his tracking was 'continual, repetitive, obsessive behavior' and that she lives in a constant state of fear and unease, and the other person wrote that he feared for his safety. On 15 July 2026 he was sentenced to probation and fined $500, with no contact with either victim.","incidentDate":"2025-03-26","incidentEndDate":"2025-05-26","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-02-25","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader camera system used by the Milwaukee Police Department, whose plate-read records the officer searched for the two people's locations (WISN; Spectrum News)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Two people were tracked through repeated license-plate-reader searches by a police officer; both sought and obtained restraining orders, one writing that she lives in a constant state of fear and unease and the other that he feared for his safety (their petitions as reported by WISN).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people, the officer's dating partner and her former partner, both tracked and both granted restraining orders citing fear (WISN; Spectrum News). Exact 2.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-WI","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wisn.com/article/court-grants-restraining-orders-against-ex-cop-who-stalked-ex-with-flock-cameras/71709296","primarySourceLabel":"WISN 12 News, 24 June 2026: Victims file restraining order on former cop who tracked ex with Flock cameras","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:31:52.126684+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:31:52.126684+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","stalking","restraining-order","wisconsin","milwaukee","criminal-conviction","privacy","relationships","made-claim-about"]}]}