{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-04T08:06:48.281Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"sherwood","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2026","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":"2026-sherwood-arkansas-flock-alpr-misread-plate-one-letter-gunpoint-stop-couple-infant","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In February, a Flock camera in Sherwood flagged a Black Chevrolet Tahoe as stolen.'; 'drew his weapon, and detained the driver.'; 'She was in the backseat next to a 1-month-old child.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In February 2026 a Flock camera in Sherwood flagged a black Chevrolet Tahoe as stolen; an officer stopped it in a Kohl's parking lot, drew his weapon and detained the driver, and the passenger, seated in the back next to a one-month-old child, was also detained after a second officer arrived.","causal_attribution":"KATV's account, resting on the incident report."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the vehicle that was pulled over was not the same car; the Flock camera was off by one letter.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the incident report, the camera matched the car to the plate of the stolen vehicle in its system, but the stopped car was a different vehicle; the camera's read was off by one letter.","causal_attribution":"The incident report as described by KATV attributes the stop to the camera's one-letter misread."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Once the officers realized the mistake, they promptly released both individuals.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Once the officers realized the mistake, they released both people.","causal_attribution":"KATV, citing the incident report."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'After that February incident in Sherwood, the Sherwood Police Department established a transparency portal for Flock safety.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"After the February incident the Sherwood Police Department established a Flock transparency portal stating that Flock data is retained for 30 days and that all system access requires a valid reason.","causal_attribution":"KATV reports the sequence; it does not quote the department on whether the portal was a response to the stop."}],"effects":[{"label":"a driver detained at gunpoint and a passenger seated beside a one-month-old child detained after a Flock camera misread their plate","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://katv.com/news/local/sherwood-stop-sparked-after-flock-camera-misread-plate-by-one-letter-as-stolen-katv-news-share-inform-public-community-safety","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-10-04 (KATV, Christopher Gay, 18 March 2026). Rests on the police incident report and an interview with an Institute for Justice attorney.","independence_group":"katv-sherwood-incident-report"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice"],"unknowns":["The exact date of the stop and how long the two people were held.","Whether the two people were handcuffed or described any lasting effect.","Whether the officer checked the plate manually before the stop, and whether any complaint or review followed."],"geography":{"basis":"KATV places the camera and the stop in Sherwood, Arkansas (a Kohl's parking lot). The two people's residence is not stated; affected_person_countries US rests on their stop there. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional-use case consistent with the held Flock misread rows: KATV, citing the police incident report, reports that a Flock camera's one-letter misread flagged a car as stolen and that officers detained the driver at gunpoint and the passenger, who was beside a one-month-old child, before releasing them. Neither person is named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"KATV, citing the incident report, says a Flock camera in Sherwood flagged the car as stolen because the camera's plate read was off by one letter from the stolen vehicle's plate in its system. KATV describes Flock cameras as license plate readers that record passing plates and check them against a list of stolen vehicles. The flag on the couple's car was the automated system's claim about them; drawing a weapon and detaining them were officers' decisions. The source does not describe the camera as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Sherwood, Arkansas: a driver and passenger with a one-month-old child are detained after an officer draws his weapon because a Flock camera misread their plate by one letter as a stolen vehicle's","summary":"KATV reported on 18 March 2026 that in February a Flock license-plate-reader camera in Sherwood, Arkansas flagged a black Chevrolet Tahoe as stolen. An officer stopped the car in a Kohl's parking lot, drew his weapon and detained the driver; a second officer arrived and the passenger, who was in the back seat next to a one-month-old child, was also detained. According to the incident report, the plate the camera matched belonged to the stolen vehicle in its system and the stopped car was a different vehicle: the camera's read was off by one letter. The officers released both people once they realized the mistake. After the incident the Sherwood Police Department set up a Flock transparency portal.","incidentDate":"2026-02-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-03-18","aiSystem":"Flock Safety license-plate-reader camera in Sherwood, Arkansas that read the car's plate and flagged it as a stolen vehicle's plate (incident report as reported by KATV)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the incident report as described by KATV, a driver was detained at gunpoint and a passenger seated beside a one-month-old child was also detained after a Flock camera misread their plate by one letter as a stolen vehicle's; both were released when officers realized the mistake.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people detained: the driver and the passenger (KATV, citing the incident report). The one-month-old child is not counted because no harm to the child is reported.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-AR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://katv.com/news/local/sherwood-stop-sparked-after-flock-camera-misread-plate-by-one-letter-as-stolen-katv-news-share-inform-public-community-safety","primarySourceLabel":"KATV, 18 March 2026: Sherwood stop sparked after Flock camera misread plate by one letter as stolen","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:47:10.066076+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:47:10.066076+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","misread","wrongful-stop","gunpoint","arkansas","sherwood","made-claim-about"]}]}