{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-05T06:38:12.351Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"shively","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":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-shively-kentucky-police-officer-flock-alpr-tracked-mother-of-child-2048-searches-charged","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'had conducted 2,048 Flock searches from January into May to track two vehicles registered to the victim, his child’s mother, in Kentucky and Indiana, court records show'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'conduct more than 2,000 searches on license plates belonging to the woman he shares a child with, according to court records'; 'tracked the woman from January through May of this year'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'made more than 2,000 searches to track the movements of the mother of his child in Kentucky and Indiana over a five-month period, according to court documents'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Court records say investigators found the officer conducted 2,048 Flock searches from January into May 2026 to track two vehicles registered to the mother of the officer's child, in Kentucky and Indiana.","causal_attribution":"Court records and the police chief's statements as reported by three outlets (one group); the court records were not inspected. The exact figure 2,048 is CNN's; the year comes from Louisville Public Media's 'this year' in an August 2026 article."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'harassed the victim and made threatening comments, prompting her to file an order of protection against him, according to the court records'; 'Investigators determined 241 Flock searches happened while that order of protection was in place, from April 17 to May 6'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'More than 200 of the searches occurred during a time in which the woman'; 'had received an Indiana court issued protective order against him'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the court records, the officer harassed the woman and made threatening comments during the period of the searches, prompting her to file for an order of protection, and the police chief said 241 searches were run while that order was in place, from 17 April to 6 May.","causal_attribution":"Allegations in court records and the chief's statements as reported; no court record or protective order was inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'listed the reason for the investigation as a drug or narcotics investigation, even though the woman who was targeted was not the subject of any such investigation'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Officials said the officer listed a drug or narcotics investigation as the reason for the searches, although the woman was not the subject of any such investigation.","causal_attribution":"Officials' statements at the news conference as reported by CNN."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The AI tool flagged the activity on Monday and by Tuesday,'; 'charged with five counts of official misconduct in the fifth degree and five counts of unlawful access to a computer in the fourth degree, court records show'; 'is currently suspended without pay, pending the outcome of the criminal investigation and internal review'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'artificial intelligence-based monitoring system alerted Shively Police on Monday that'; 'Less than 24 hours later, police determined the searches had no legitimate law enforcement purpose and they arrested him at the Shively Police Department.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Flock's AI-based audit tool flagged the searches to the department, and the officer was arrested the next day, charged with five counts of official misconduct and five counts of unlawful access to a computer, and suspended without pay.","causal_attribution":"The chief's account and court records as reported; the charges are allegations."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'has pleaded not guilty to five counts of official misconduct and five counts of unlawful access to a computer'; 'Flock searches lacked proper documentation and did not meet department standards'; 'require a case number for searches'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"By 31 August 2026 the officer had pleaded not guilty, and the department said an internal review found its previous audits of officers' Flock searches lacked proper documentation and that it would require a case number for searches.","causal_attribution":"Spectrum News 1's report of the chief's statement and a department release."}],"effects":[{"label":"two vehicles tracked through 2,048 police license-plate-reader searches by a police officer with whom she shares a child, including while a protective order was in place","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/us/flock-kentucky-police-officer-arrest","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-05 (live; CNN; published 26 August 2026). Reports the police chief's news conference and court records.","independence_group":"shively-pd-news-conference-and-court-records-2026-08"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.lpm.org/investigate/2026-08-26/shively-police-officer-arrested-for-using-license-plate-readers-to-track-woman","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-05 (live; Louisville Public Media, Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting; published 26 August 2026). Reports the same news conference and court records.","independence_group":"shively-pd-news-conference-and-court-records-2026-08"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2026/08/31/shively-pd-finds-significant-gap-in-flock-camera-search-audits-following-officer-arrest","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-05 (live; Spectrum News 1; published 31 August 2026). Reports the chief's later statement, a department release and court documents.","independence_group":"shively-pd-news-conference-and-court-records-2026-08"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["Whether the woman knew of the searches before the arrest, and what she experienced beyond the harassment and threats alleged in the court records.","What the searches returned and how the officer used the results.","The outcome of the criminal case and of the internal review of the officer."],"geography":{"basis":"The officer served with the Shively Police Department in Kentucky and was charged there (CNN, Louisville Public Media). Louisville Public Media says the officer used the readers to track and harass a woman in Kentucky and Indiana, and CNN says her two vehicles were tracked in Kentucky and Indiana, which places her in the United States during the events; her residence is 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 Flock officer-misuse rows: court records and the Shively police chief, as reported by CNN, Louisville Public Media and Spectrum News 1, say an officer ran 2,048 searches of the department's Flock license-plate-reader system to track the mother of the officer's child, including while a protective order was in place. The charges are allegations and the officer has pleaded not guilty. The automated readers generated the plate-read records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. Neither the officer nor the woman is named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Court records and the police chief, as reported by CNN and Louisville Public Media, say the officer ran the searches in the Shively Police Department's Flock license-plate-reader system. The plate-read records that located the woman's vehicles were the system's output, and the misuse was a human act. The sources describe as AI the Flock audit tool that flagged the searches; they do not describe the readers themselves as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Shively, Kentucky: a police officer was charged in August 2026 over 2,048 searches of the department's Flock license-plate-reader system that court records say tracked the mother of the officer's child, 241 of them, by the police chief's account, while a protective order was in place","summary":"A patrol officer with the Shively Police Department in Kentucky was arrested in August 2026 and charged with five counts of official misconduct and five counts of unlawful access to a computer. Court records cited by CNN say the officer ran 2,048 searches of the department's Flock license-plate-reader system from January into May to track two vehicles registered to the mother of the officer's child, in Kentucky and Indiana. According to the court records, the officer harassed the woman and made threatening comments during that period, and she sought a protective order. The police chief said 241 of the searches were run while that order was in place. Officials said at the news conference that the officer had entered a drug investigation as the reason for the searches, although the woman was not the subject of one. An audit tool supplied by Flock flagged the searches to the department, which arrested the officer the next day and suspended the officer without pay. Spectrum News reported on 31 August 2026 that the officer had pleaded not guilty.","incidentDate":"2026-01-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-05-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-26","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader system operated by the Shively Police Department, Kentucky, searched by the officer through department access; the searches were flagged by Flock's AI-based audit tool (police chief and court records as reported by CNN and Louisville Public Media)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to court records cited by CNN, a police officer ran 2,048 searches of the department's Flock license-plate-reader system to track two vehicles registered to the mother of the officer's child, and harassed and threatened her during the same period; the police chief said 241 searches were run while her protective order was in place.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the woman whose two vehicles were searched (court records as reported by CNN, Louisville Public Media and Spectrum News). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-KY","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/us/flock-kentucky-police-officer-arrest","primarySourceLabel":"CNN, 26 August 2026: Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock camera system over 2,000 times, authorities say","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:14:56.723202+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T03:14:56.723202+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","location-tracking","kentucky","shively","protective-order","criminal-charges","audit-tool","made-claim-about"]}]}