{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-05T06:38:40.963Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"protection-order","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","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":"2025-bonner-springs-kansas-police-detective-license-plate-readers-tracked-wife-and-two-men-stalking-charges","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'used license plate readers (LPR), such as Flock cameras, to track his wife and the two men'; 'had used law enforcement technology and equipment to stalk his wife'; 'used LPR data close to where one of the two men lived'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Court documents say the detective used license plate readers, such as Flock cameras, to track the detective's wife and two men the detective believed were involved with her.","causal_attribution":"Allegations in a court affidavit as reported by KSHB 41; the affidavit was not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'used department access to the Accurint Virtual Crime Center data to track his wife and the other two men more than 20 times in late December'; 'wife filed for a protection order, which was granted and served on Jan. 19'; 'used the crime center data to make three more searches even after being served the protection order'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The affidavit says the detective used the department's access to the Accurint Virtual Crime Center to track the wife and the two men more than 20 times in late December, and made three more searches after a protection order obtained by the wife was served on 19 January.","causal_attribution":"Allegations in the affidavit as reported. These searches used a police data service, not the plate readers."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In March, Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree filed 18 charges against'; 'including child sexual exploitation, stalking and breach of privacy'; 'was arrested and booked into the Wyandotte County Detention Center on March 18 on a $150,000 bond'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In March 2026 the Wyandotte County District Attorney filed 18 charges against the former detective, including stalking and breach of privacy, and the former detective was arrested on 18 March.","causal_attribution":"KSHB 41's report of the charges; the charges are allegations and no charging document was inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'After completing their investigation, police in Bonner Springs terminated'; 'contacted a special agent at the Kansas Bureau of Investigations on Jan. 28, 2026, following an internal investigation'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Bonner Springs police terminated the detective on 26 January after an internal investigation, and a police captain contacted the Kansas Bureau of Investigation on 28 January 2026.","causal_attribution":"The affidavit and KSHB 41's account."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'who told them she had separated from'; 'In one instance on Nov. 15, 2025,'; 'following them in his police vehicle through parking lots in the area'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The wife told agents she had separated from the detective in November 2025, and on 15 November 2025 the detective followed her and one of the men in a police vehicle.","causal_attribution":"The wife's and one man's accounts to investigators as reported from the affidavit."}],"effects":[{"label":"tracked through police license plate readers by a police detective (the detective's wife and two men)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/affidavit-former-bonner-springs-detective-used-license-plate-cameras-to-stalk-wife","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-05 (live; KSHB 41; published 6 April 2026). Reports the contents of a court affidavit; the affidavit itself was not inspected.","independence_group":"kshb-wyandotte-affidavit-2026-04-06"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["When and how many times the plate readers were searched, and which reader system was used.","What the plate-reader searches returned and how the results were used.","The outcome of the criminal case."],"geography":{"basis":"The detective served with the Bonner Springs Police Department in Kansas and was charged in Wyandotte County District Court (KSHB 41). The wife contacted Kansas City, Kansas police, and one of the men was with her when the detective followed them from a gym in Olathe, so the affected people are placed in the United States; their residences are not stated.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional privacy case, consistent with the held officer-misuse rows: KSHB 41 reports a court affidavit alleging that a police detective used license plate readers and other department resources to track the detective's wife and two men. The charges are allegations. The readers generated the plate-read records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. Neither the detective nor the three people are named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"KSHB 41 reports that court documents say the detective used license plate readers, such as Flock cameras, to track the wife and two men. The plate-read records were the readers' output, and the misuse was a human act. The source does not name the reader system with certainty and does not describe the readers as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Bonner Springs, Kansas: a former police detective was charged in March 2026 with stalking and other offences, and a court affidavit says the detective used license plate readers and other police resources to track the detective's wife and two men","summary":"KSHB 41 reported on 6 April 2026 that a court affidavit accuses a former Bonner Springs Police Department detective of using license plate readers, such as Flock cameras, to track the detective's wife and two men the detective believed were involved with her. The affidavit says the detective also used the department's access to a police data service to track the three people more than 20 times in late December, and made three more searches after being served with a protection order the wife had obtained. The wife told Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents she had separated from the detective in November 2025. Bonner Springs police terminated the detective on 26 January after an internal investigation. In March the Wyandotte County District Attorney filed 18 charges, including stalking and breach of privacy, and the detective was arrested on 18 March. The charges are allegations.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-04-06","aiSystem":"License plate readers, described by KSHB 41 as 'license plate readers (LPR), such as Flock cameras', used by a Bonner Springs Police Department detective (court affidavit as reported). The report names neither the reader system nor the agency that operated it.","aiProduct":"Unidentified license plate reader","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to a court affidavit reported by KSHB 41, a police detective used license plate readers and other department resources to track and surveil the detective's wife and two men, continuing database searches after a protection order was served.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Three people: the detective's wife and two men, described in the affidavit as tracked with license plate readers (KSHB 41, 6 April 2026). Exact 3.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-KS","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/affidavit-former-bonner-springs-detective-used-license-plate-cameras-to-stalk-wife","primarySourceLabel":"KSHB 41 Kansas City, 6 April 2026: Court: Former Bonner Springs detective used license plate cameras to stalk wife","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:23:18.414973+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T03:23:18.414973+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","location-tracking","stalking","kansas","bonner-springs","wyandotte-county","protection-order","criminal-charges","made-claim-about"]}]}