{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-05T06:38:38.818Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"rhode-island","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":0,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":1},"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-cumberland-rhode-island-flock-camera-photo-driver-misidentification-false-arrest-lawsuit","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'a false arrest lawsuit filed in June by private counsel on behalf of a woman who was falsely arrested by Cumberland Police after they used an image taken by a Flock camera to wrongly identify her'; 'resulted in a short car chase'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Filed 06/16/26'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to a federal lawsuit filed in June 2026, as relayed by the ACLU of Rhode Island, Cumberland police falsely arrested a woman after using an image taken by a Flock camera to wrongly identify her as the driver in a short car chase.","causal_attribution":"Allegations in the lawsuit as relayed by the ACLU of Rhode Island; the complaint was not cited and the town's response was not found. The filing date is from the exhibit header reproduced in the letter PDF."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'a photo from the flock camera of'; 'driving the vehicle during the pursuit. The photo matches'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'a police officer’s report from March 2025 wrongly concluded that'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A Cumberland police officer's report from March 2025, filed with the lawsuit, says a sergeant captured a photograph from the Flock camera of the driver during the pursuit and that the photograph matched the woman's license photo.","causal_attribution":"The officer's report as quoted by the ACLU of Rhode Island from the lawsuit exhibit; the exhibit text itself could not be extracted."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The police officers then used Facebook to identify someone that they believed was the driver'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the lawsuit as relayed by the ACLU of Rhode Island, officers used Facebook to identify the person they believed was the driver.","causal_attribution":"Allegation in the lawsuit as relayed."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'regarding a false arrest made in 2025'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'has called on the Cumberland Town Council to cancel its contract with Flock Safety'; 'at what point the ALPRs began being used to also capture photos of drivers and passengers in vehicles'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'urge the Town Council to reconsider, and cancel, its contract'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The ACLU of Rhode Island describes the arrest as made in 2025. On 7 August 2026 it asked the Cumberland Town Council to cancel the town's Flock contract and to disclose when the cameras began capturing photographs of drivers and passengers.","causal_attribution":"The ACLU of Rhode Island's own statements."}],"effects":[{"label":"arrested after police took a photograph from a Flock camera to show her driving a car that had fled officers, an identification her lawsuit says was wrong","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.riaclu.org/news/flock-safety-image-led-to-false-arrest-aclu-urges-cumberland-cancel-contract/","kind":"advocacy_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-10-05 (ACLU of Rhode Island news item, 7 August 2026). The ACLU of Rhode Island is not counsel in the lawsuit; it relays the complaint and an attached police report.","independence_group":"aclu-ri-relay-of-cumberland-lawsuit"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.riaclu.org/app/uploads/2026/08/Letter-%E2%80%93-Cumberland-False-Arrest-and-Flock-Safety.pdf","kind":"advocacy_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-10-05 via pdftotext (ACLU of Rhode Island letter to the Cumberland Town Council, 7 August 2026, three pages). It quotes the Cumberland police officer's report filed as an exhibit to the lawsuit; the attached report page itself is an image and yielded no text.","independence_group":"aclu-ri-relay-of-cumberland-lawsuit"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.riaclu.org/publications/letter-re-flock-safety-photo-leads-to-false-arrest-in-cumberland/","kind":"advocacy_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-10-05 (ACLU of Rhode Island publication page for the letter, dated 7 August 2026). The page lists the letter and the complaint; its one-sentence description of the letter is carried in the page's og:description metadata, which the saved body file appends.","independence_group":"aclu-ri-relay-of-cumberland-lawsuit"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice","privacy"],"unknowns":["The date of the arrest, the charges and how long the woman was held.","How the charges were resolved.","The town's and the police department's response to the lawsuit and to the letter.","How the Flock photograph was retrieved and whether any automated comparison was used."],"geography":{"basis":"The arrest was made by police in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and the lawsuit against the town is in federal court (ACLU of Rhode Island). The bodies read do not say where the woman lives.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional-use case consistent with the held Flock photograph rows. The ACLU of Rhode Island, relaying a federal lawsuit and quoting the police officer's report filed with it, says Cumberland police arrested a woman after concluding that a Flock camera photograph of a fleeing driver matched her license photo. All three sources come from one organisation relaying one lawsuit, so every claim is reported and causation is alleged. The woman is not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The ACLU of Rhode Island, relaying the lawsuit and quoting a Cumberland police officer's report, says police captured a photograph of the fleeing car's driver from a Flock Safety automated license plate reader camera and concluded that it matched the woman's license photo. The comparison of the two photographs was made by officers. No body read describes any automated matching of faces.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Cumberland, Rhode Island: a woman's lawsuit, as relayed by the ACLU of Rhode Island, says police falsely arrested her after concluding that a Flock camera photograph of a fleeing driver matched her license photo; the ACLU dates the arrest to 2025 and asked the town to cancel its Flock contract","summary":"The ACLU of Rhode Island reported in August 2026 on a federal lawsuit filed in June by a woman who says Cumberland police falsely arrested her. According to the lawsuit as the ACLU describes it, an officer saw a car turn without signalling and a short chase followed. Officers then used Facebook to identify a person they believed was the driver. A police officer's report from March 2025, quoted in the ACLU's letter, says a sergeant captured a photograph from a Flock camera of the driver during the pursuit and that the photograph matched the woman's license photo. The lawsuit says that identification was wrong. The ACLU said the report shows the town's Flock license plate cameras also photograph drivers and passengers, which it says was not disclosed when the cameras were approved in 2024. On 7 August 2026 it asked the Town Council to cancel the Flock contract.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-08-07","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license plate reader camera in Cumberland from which police took a photograph of a car's driver (police officer's report as quoted by the ACLU of Rhode Island)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to her lawsuit as relayed by the ACLU of Rhode Island, the woman was falsely arrested by Cumberland police on the strength of a Flock camera photograph that officers wrongly took to show her.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the woman who was arrested and later sued (ACLU of Rhode Island). 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