{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-04T07:06:33.252Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"spouse","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":6,"coverage":{"cases":6,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":2,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":2,"contextualRelations":4,"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":"2024-dallas-georgia-police-911-director-flock-alpr-searches-estranged-husband-and-partner-arrested","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'searched more than 2,500 times for cars belonging to her estranged husband and his new girlfriend'; 'almost every day from July 2024 to May 2025'; 'as many as 39 times in one day, sometimes just seconds apart'; 'More than half her searches of those cars occurred between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'had accessed the system up to 1,200 times for non-law enforcement purposes, with some searches allegedly involving her former spouse'","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"USA TODAY's analysis of Flock audit logs found that the director used Flock to look up the license plates of her estranged husband and his new girlfriend almost every day from July 2024 to May 2025, more than 2,500 times in all and as many as 39 times in one day, with more than half of the searches made between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m.","causal_attribution":"USA TODAY's own analysis of audit logs. The GBI figure relayed from 11Alive (up to 1,200 accesses) differs; the GBI release itself gives no count. Not independently confirmed."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'repeatedly showed up unannounced at the restaurants where they ate'; 'even at the rural, 100-acre Alabama property they regularly visit'; 'I think she wanted us to know she was there.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The husband and his girlfriend told USA TODAY that in the months after the couple separated, the director repeatedly showed up unannounced at restaurants where they ate, at the hospital where the girlfriend works and at a rural Alabama property they regularly visit.","causal_attribution":"The couple's own account to USA TODAY; the director did not respond. The link between the searches and the appearances is the couple's inference."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'said she fears for her safety'; 'She filed a petition for a restraining order against'; 'on Aug. 20, court records show, citing her frequent Flock searches'; 'It’s an invasion of privacy'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The girlfriend said she fears for her safety and, according to court records, filed a petition for a restraining order against the director on 20 August 2026, citing her frequent Flock searches; the husband called the searches an invasion of privacy.","causal_attribution":"The couple's statements and USA TODAY's reading of court records, which were not inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'requested the GBI to investigate allegations of misuse of the Dallas Police Department Flock Safety System'; 'accessed the Flock Safety System between 2024 and 2025 for non-law enforcement purposes'; 'with two misdemeanor counts of Misuse of a License Plate Reader System'; 'was booked into the Paulding County Jail'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'on two misdemeanor counts of misusing a license plate reader'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"On 7 July 2026 the Dallas Police Department asked the GBI to investigate allegations of misuse of its Flock Safety system; preliminary information indicated that the 911 director had accessed the system between 2024 and 2025 for non-law enforcement purposes. The GBI arrested her on 12 August 2026 on two misdemeanor counts of misuse of a license plate reader system and booked her into the Paulding County Jail.","causal_attribution":"The GBI's release; USA TODAY reports the same arrest and charges. Charges are allegations."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'USA TODAY contacted the Dallas Police Department about'; 'asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to investigate her the next day'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'On July 7, 2026, the Dallas Police Department requested the GBI'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"USA TODAY contacted the Dallas Police Department about the director's Flock activity on 6 July 2026, and the department asked the GBI to investigate her the next day.","causal_attribution":"USA TODAY's account of its own inquiry; the GBI release gives the 7 July request date."}],"effects":[{"label":"the couple's cars searched more than 2,500 times in the police Flock system by the husband's estranged wife, a police 911 director","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the couple say she repeatedly showed up unannounced where they were","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the girlfriend fears for her safety and has petitioned for a restraining order","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/08/28/flock-camera-investigation-police-arrested-fired-surveillance/91383586007/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 from the eu.usatoday.com edition of the same article (the www host answered 402). USA TODAY's own analysis of Flock audit logs, interviews with the husband and his girlfriend, court records and the director's personnel file.","independence_group":"usat-flock-investigation"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2026-08-12/gbi-arrests-former-911-director-paulding-county-misuse-license-plate","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live). The GBI's arrest release; it names the charges and the department's request but not the people searched.","independence_group":"gbi-2026-08-12"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/another-person-caught-using-flock-192101856.html","kind":"news_relay","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; Mandatory on Yahoo News, 17 August 2026). Relays 11Alive's report of the GBI's account (11Alive answered 403 and was not read). The page's automated key-takeaways box was not used.","independence_group":"gbi-2026-08-12"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["The exact number of searches (USA TODAY: more than 2,500; the GBI via 11Alive: up to 1,200).","Whether the restraining order was granted.","Whether the director has been charged in court and any outcome."],"geography":{"basis":"The director worked for the Dallas Police Department in Paulding County, Georgia, whose Flock system she searched; the GBI arrested her and booked her into the Paulding County Jail (GBI release). The couple's residence is not stated; affected_person_countries US rests on their cars being searched in the Georgia department's system and on the places named in USA TODAY (restaurants, a hospital and an Alabama property). The case is in Georgia.","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 GBI arrested a police 911 director for misusing the department's Flock license-plate-reader system, and USA TODAY's analysis and interviews describe the two people whose cars she searched and the effects they report. The automated readers generated the plate-read records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. The director and the couple are not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The GBI says the director accessed the Dallas Police Department's Flock Safety system for non-law enforcement purposes, and USA TODAY's analysis of Flock audit logs found her repeated searches of the couple's license plates. USA TODAY describes the Flock system as photographing passing cars and uploading the plate number, make, model, color and other characteristics to an online database. The plate-read records about the couple's cars were the system's output; the searches are recorded as the director's own acts. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Dallas, Georgia: a police department's 911 director is accused of using its Flock license-plate-reader system to track her estranged husband and his new partner almost daily from July 2024 to May 2025; the GBI arrested her in August 2026","summary":"The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested the former 911 director of the Dallas Police Department in Paulding County, Georgia, on 12 August 2026 on two misdemeanor counts of misuse of a license plate reader system, after the department asked it on 7 July to investigate misuse of the department's Flock Safety system between 2024 and 2025. A USA TODAY analysis of Flock audit logs found that she had searched more than 2,500 times for the cars of her estranged husband and his new girlfriend, almost every day from July 2024 to May 2025 and as many as 39 times in one day. The couple told USA TODAY that in the months after the separation she repeatedly showed up unannounced at restaurants where they ate, at the hospital where the girlfriend works and at a rural Alabama property they visit. The girlfriend said she fears for her safety and, according to court records, filed a petition for a restraining order on 20 August citing the Flock searches. USA TODAY had contacted the department about the searches on 6 July. The charges are allegations.","incidentDate":"2024-07-01","incidentEndDate":"2025-05-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-12","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader system of the Dallas (Georgia) Police Department, searched by its 911 director (GBI release; USA TODAY analysis of Flock audit logs)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to USA TODAY's analysis of Flock audit logs, the couple's cars were searched more than 2,500 times over about ten months by the husband's estranged wife, a police 911 director; they say she repeatedly appeared where they were, and the girlfriend says she fears for her safety and has sought a restraining order. The director is charged with misuse of a license plate reader system.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people, the director's estranged husband and his new girlfriend, whose cars USA TODAY's analysis found she searched and who described the effects to USA TODAY. Exact 2.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-GA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/08/28/flock-camera-investigation-police-arrested-fired-surveillance/91383586007/","primarySourceLabel":"USA TODAY, 28 August 2026: Our Flock camera investigation sparks police firings, arrests","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:13.936939+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:13.936939+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","estranged-spouse","georgia","dallas-georgia","paulding-county","gbi","usa-today-investigation","restraining-order","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2024-hancock-county-indiana-deputy-flock-alpr-searches-wife-former-girlfriends-charged","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Over 6,190 alleged searches were made between December 2024 and March 2026, which included over 1,100 searches for his wife’s vehicle, over 1,100 for a man who knew his wife, over 200 for an ex-girlfriend from'; 'searches for another ex-girlfriend’s husband'; 'Only 40 of these searches were conducted while on-duty.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'found nearly 6,200 Flock searches between December 2024 and March 2026'","relation":"context","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"According to court documents reported by the Indianapolis Star, the deputy made more than 6,190 Flock searches between December 2024 and March 2026, including more than 1,100 for his wife's vehicle, more than 1,100 for a man who knew his wife, more than 200 for a former girlfriend from high school and searches for another former girlfriend's husband; only 40 were made on duty.","causal_attribution":"The figures come from court documents as reported by the Indianapolis Star; the probable-cause filing was not inspected. WIBC's account of the same documents, relayed by the Hoosier Enquirer, gives a similar total but different per-person counts, so the counts are recorded as reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In April of 2026, Indiana State Police received a request to conduct an investigation into an allegation of intimidation.'; 'Through an extensive audit, detectives found unauthorized searches in the license plate reading camera database.'; 'The searches were specific to people'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'An extensive audit of the license plate reader database found unauthorized searches involving people'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The Indiana State Police investigation began in April 2026 with an intimidation allegation over threatening text messages from the deputy, and an extensive audit then found unauthorized searches in the license-plate-reading camera database that were specific to people he was familiar with.","causal_attribution":"The state police account; WISH rewrites the same release."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'also allegedly performed a traffic stop on an ex-girlfriend’s child after finding them via a Flock search'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'tailgated her during a January traffic stop after her vehicle had been searched on Flock nine times'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The deputy is accused of performing a traffic stop on a former girlfriend's child after finding them through a Flock search.","causal_attribution":"The Indianapolis Star's account of the court documents; the Hoosier Enquirer relays WIBC's report of the child's own statement, which adds that the vehicle had been searched on Flock nine times. Both rest on the charging papers and are allegations."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'filled out reasons such as “OWI arrest” or “police investigation” for each of these searches'; 'despite none of his victims having any major criminal history in the county'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The deputy entered reasons such as 'OWI arrest' or 'police investigation' for the searches, although none of the people searched had any major criminal history in the county.","causal_attribution":"The Indianapolis Star's account of the court documents."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'detectives ultimately submitted probable cause for intimidation, official misconduct, and fraud'; 'it was served this morning by Indiana State Police Detectives'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'was arrested on Thursday, Sept. 24 on charges of intimidation, official misconduct and fraud'; 'on leave when the allegations were first made'; 'He has a court date scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 29.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The deputy was arrested on 24 September 2026 on a warrant for intimidation, official misconduct and fraud and booked into the Hancock County Jail; he had been placed on leave when the allegations were made, and a court date was set for 29 October 2026.","causal_attribution":"The state police release dated 24 September 2026 and the Indianapolis Star's report; no court record was inspected."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'That person, a family member, also mentioned'; 'was stalking and confronting individuals using police tech'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The person who received the threatening texts was a family member, who also told police that the deputy was stalking and confronting people using police technology.","causal_attribution":"The Indianapolis Star, citing the state police release and court documents. The text messages are part of the intimidation charge and are not attributed to the camera system."}],"effects":[{"label":"vehicles of the deputy's wife, former girlfriends and other people he knew searched thousands of times in police license-plate-reader records without a law enforcement purpose","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a former girlfriend's child pulled over by the deputy after a license-plate-reader search","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://inkfreenews.com/2026/09/28/hancock-county-sheriffs-deputy-arrested-after-allegedly-used-flock-cameras-to-stalk-wife-ex-girlfriends","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; published 28 September 2026). Syndicated Indianapolis Star article; it cites the state police release and court documents. Its per-person figures match WXIN's report of the same court documents (read privately via a WKRC relay), so both are treated as one chain resting on the probable-cause filing, which was not inspected.","independence_group":"hancock-court-documents-reports"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.wbiw.com/2026/09/24/indiana-state-police-investigation-leads-to-charges-against-hancock-county-deputy-for-intimidation-and-license-plate-reader-misuse/","kind":"press_release","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; published 24 September 2026). WBIW posts the Indiana State Police news release verbatim; the release does not name Flock.","independence_group":"isp-hancock-release"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/hancock-county-deputy-arrested-after-isp-investigation-into-threatening-texts-license-plate-reader-searches/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; published 24 September 2026). A rewrite of the state police release, so grouped with it.","independence_group":"isp-hancock-release"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.hoosierenquirer.com/post/hancock-deputy-faces-441-charges-after-isp-says-he-turned-flock-cameras-into-a-private-tracker","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; published 25 September 2026). An aggregator article that relays WIBC's account of the charging documents (WIBC itself was not read) together with the state police release; its per-person search figures differ from the Indianapolis Star's.","independence_group":"hancock-court-documents-reports"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["The exact per-person search counts: the Indianapolis Star reports more than 1,100 searches each for the wife's vehicle and for a man who knew the wife, while WIBC (as relayed) reports more than 900 each.","How many former girlfriends were searched, and whether the man who knew the wife is the same person as the other former girlfriend's husband.","Whether the people searched knew of the tracking before the April 2026 investigation.","The outcome of the criminal case and of the sheriff's employment proceedings."],"geography":{"basis":"The deputy served with the Hancock County Sheriff's Office in Indiana, the Indiana State Police investigated, and he was booked into the Hancock County Jail on charges prepared with the Hancock County Prosecutor's Office (state police release). The residences of the people searched are not stated; affected_person_countries US rests on their vehicles being searched in the Indiana sheriff's camera database, on the deputy's traffic stop of a former girlfriend's child, and on the court documents' statement that none of them had major criminal history in the county.","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 Indiana State Police state that a sheriff's deputy ran unauthorized license-plate-reader searches on people he knew, and court documents reported by the Indianapolis Star identify those people as including his wife and former girlfriends and describe a traffic stop of a former girlfriend's child after a Flock search. The charges are allegations. The automated readers generated the location records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. Neither the deputy nor the people searched are named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Indiana State Police state that an audit found unauthorized searches in the automatic license-plate-reading camera database specific to people the deputy was familiar with, and the Indianapolis Star, citing court documents, describes more than 6,190 searches of Flock cameras, including searches for his wife's vehicle and former girlfriends. The plate-read records used to locate the people's vehicles were the system's output, and the misuse was a human act. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Hancock County, Indiana: a sheriff's deputy is accused of running more than 6,190 Flock license-plate-reader searches on his wife, former girlfriends and others between December 2024 and March 2026; arrested and charged in September 2026","summary":"Indiana State Police arrested a Hancock County Sheriff's Office deputy on 24 September 2026 on charges of intimidation, official misconduct and fraud. According to the state police, an investigation that began in April 2026 over threatening text messages the deputy sent to a family member uncovered unauthorized searches in the automatic license-plate-reader camera database that were specific to people he was familiar with. Court documents reported by the Indianapolis Star allege more than 6,190 Flock searches between December 2024 and March 2026, only 40 of them on duty, including more than 1,100 searches for his wife's vehicle, more than 1,100 for a man who knew his wife, more than 200 for a former girlfriend from high school and searches for another former girlfriend's husband. He is also accused of pulling over a former girlfriend's child after finding them through a Flock search. The charges are allegations; a court date was set for 29 October 2026.","incidentDate":"2024-12-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-03-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-24","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader camera system and search database used by the Hancock County Sheriff's Office, which the deputy searched through his police access (Indiana State Police; Indianapolis Star)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to court documents reported by the Indianapolis Star, a sheriff's deputy searched the vehicles of his wife, former girlfriends and other people he knew thousands of times in the Flock license-plate-reader system without a law enforcement purpose, and pulled over a former girlfriend's child after finding them through a Flock search; the charges are allegations.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":4,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The Indianapolis Star, citing court documents, itemises searches for the deputy's wife's vehicle, a man who knew his wife, a former girlfriend from high school and another former girlfriend's husband, and a traffic stop of a former girlfriend's child found through a Flock search. The man who knew the wife may be the same person as the other former girlfriend's husband, and the child's parent may be the high-school former girlfriend, so the safe distinct minimum is four (wife, high-school former girlfriend, at least one man, the child). Other searched people (the state police refer to people he was familiar with) are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://inkfreenews.com/2026/09/28/hancock-county-sheriffs-deputy-arrested-after-allegedly-used-flock-cameras-to-stalk-wife-ex-girlfriends","primarySourceLabel":"InkFreeNews, 28 September 2026: Hancock County Sheriff's Deputy Arrested After Allegedly Used Flock Cameras To Stalk Wife, Ex-Girlfriends (Indianapolis Star)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:03.007838+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:30:03.007838+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","stalking","police-misuse","spouse","former-partner","indiana","hancock-county","greenfield","indiana-state-police","criminal-charges","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2024-haines-city-florida-police-officer-flock-alpr-717-searches-estranged-wife-vehicle-arrest","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'used the database 717 times between September 2024 and June 2026 to check the locations of a vehicle belonging to his estranged wife'; 'used a database of Flock camera recordings to follow his wife’s location'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'made 717 inquiries on the Flock camera platform into his estranged wife'; 'misused the Flock camera databases both on and off duty'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'into the Flock database 717 times between Sept. 1, 2024, and June 30, 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the arrest affidavit, the officer made 717 inquiries on the Flock camera platform into his estranged wife's vehicle between 1 September 2024 and 30 June 2026, both on and off duty, to check its locations.","causal_attribution":"The arrest affidavit and the department's release, relayed by three outlets; not independent support. The officer is charged, not convicted."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'searched the vehicle several times on the database to keep track of his children'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'using it to keep track of his children'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the affidavit, the officer told a lieutenant that he had searched the vehicle several times on the database to keep track of his children's location when they were with his wife.","causal_attribution":"The officer's own explanation as recorded in the affidavit."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'a text message on Aug. 10 saying that the Washington Post had contacted her'; 'command staff were notified of possible misuse of the database'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The affidavit says that on 10 August 2026 the woman sent the officer a text message saying that the Washington Post had contacted her and planned to write an article on his misuse of the Flock database to follow her location; command staff were notified of possible misuse at about 6:30 p.m. that day and opened a criminal investigation.","causal_attribution":"The Ledger's account of the affidavit and release; the affidavit does not say how the newspaper learned of the searches."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'one count of offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks and electronic devices and one count of official misconduct'; 'indicated his intent to resign as a result of the investigation'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The officer was placed on paid administrative leave, arrested on two counts, and plans to resign from the department.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The officer, with the department since March 2022, was placed on paid administrative leave, charged with one count of offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks and electronic devices and one count of official misconduct, and indicated that he intended to resign.","causal_attribution":"The department's news release; no court record was inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I have mandated additional steps to be taken quarterly'; 'do not plan to discontinue their use of Flock cameras'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The police chief said he had mandated additional quarterly steps to make sure staff access investigative databases for legitimate purposes, and the department said it did not plan to stop using Flock cameras.","causal_attribution":"The chief's statement and the department's position as reported by FOX 13."}],"effects":[{"label":"her vehicle's location searched 717 times by her estranged husband, a police officer, on the Flock license-plate-reader platform","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theledger.com/story/news/crime/2026/08/11/haines-city-officer-charged-with-using-system-to-track-estranged-wife-polk-county-florida/91261246007/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 from the eu.theledger.com edition of the same article (11 August 2026). Rests on the arrest affidavit and the department's news release.","independence_group":"haines-city-pd-release-affidavit"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.fox13news.com/news/haines-city-officer-arrested-misusing-flock-cameras-track-estranged-wife-officials","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; FOX 13 Tampa Bay, 11 August 2026). States that its information came from the department's press release, the arrest affidavit and the chief's statement.","independence_group":"haines-city-pd-release-affidavit"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.live5news.com/2026/08/18/officer-accused-misusing-flock-cameras-track-estranged-ex-wife-more-than-700-times-police-say/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (live; WWSB via Gray News, 18 August 2026). Relays the affidavit figures as reported by People and the department's release.","independence_group":"haines-city-pd-release-affidavit"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["Whether the woman has described any effect of the searches on her.","The exact arrest date, the court handling the charges and any outcome.","Whether the resignation took effect.","How the Washington Post learned of the searches."],"geography":{"basis":"The officer served with the Haines City Police Department in Polk County, Florida, which investigated and charged him (The Ledger; FOX 13). The woman's residence is not stated; affected_person_countries US rests on her vehicle being searched on the Haines City department's Flock platform. The charges were brought in Florida.","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: an arrest affidavit and police news release, reported by The Ledger and FOX 13, say a Haines City police officer searched his estranged wife's vehicle 717 times on the Flock license-plate-reader platform, and he has been charged. 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":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The arrest affidavit, as reported by The Ledger and FOX 13, says the officer made 717 inquiries on the Flock camera platform into his estranged wife's vehicle. The Ledger describes Flock cameras as automated license plate readers that capture plates, vehicle type, color and other identifying features and organize them into a searchable system. The plate-read records about the woman's vehicle were the system's output; the searches are recorded as the officer's own acts. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Haines City, Florida: a police officer is charged after his arrest affidavit says he searched his estranged wife's vehicle 717 times on the Flock license-plate-reader platform between September 2024 and June 2026","summary":"According to an arrest affidavit and a Haines City Police Department news release reported by The Ledger and FOX 13 Tampa Bay, a Haines City police officer made 717 inquiries on the Flock camera platform into his estranged wife's vehicle between 1 September 2024 and 30 June 2026, on and off duty. He told a lieutenant that he had searched the vehicle to keep track of his children's location when they were with her. Command staff were notified of possible misuse on 10 August 2026; the affidavit says the woman had texted him that day that the Washington Post had contacted her about an article on his use of the Flock database. The officer was placed on paid administrative leave, charged with one count of offenses against users of computers and one count of official misconduct, and said he intended to resign. The police chief said he had ordered additional quarterly checks on database access.","incidentDate":"2024-09-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-06-30","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-11","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader camera platform used by the Haines City Police Department, which the officer searched through his police access (arrest affidavit and police news release, as reported by The Ledger and FOX 13)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the arrest affidavit, the woman's vehicle was searched 717 times on the Flock license-plate-reader platform by her estranged husband, a police officer, over nearly two years, on and off duty; he is charged with a computer offence and official misconduct.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the officer's estranged wife, whose vehicle was searched (arrest affidavit via The Ledger, FOX 13 and Live 5 News). The children the officer mentioned are not counted: no harm to them is reported. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-FL","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.theledger.com/story/news/crime/2026/08/11/haines-city-officer-charged-with-using-system-to-track-estranged-wife-polk-county-florida/91261246007/","primarySourceLabel":"The Ledger, 11 August 2026: Haines City officer charged with using system to track estranged wife","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:25:42.040756+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:25:42.040756+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","estranged-spouse","florida","haines-city","polk-county","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2022-kechi-kansas-police-lieutenant-flock-alpr-stalked-estranged-wife-sentenced","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'took advantage of his position in the department to use the Flock License Plate Reader system to monitor his estranged wife’s location'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'unlawfully access WPD’s flock license plate reader technology to monitor where his estranged wife was located'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'This comes after a Kechi lieutenant’s arrest for illegally using the system to stalk his estranged wife.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The Kechi police lieutenant used his position to access the Wichita Police Department's Flock license-plate-reader system and monitor his estranged wife's location.","causal_attribution":"The DA's sentencing release and KWCH's arrest-stage report, five months apart, both state the Flock use; both ultimately rest on the Wichita police investigation. The guilty plea was to computer crime and stalking; the Flock detail is the prosecutor's and police account. Recorded as reported: the KWCH arrest report and the DA release both rest on the Wichita police investigation, so they are not independent support."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The former lieutenant of the Kechi Police Department pled guilty to computer crime and stalking, both misdemeanors.'; 'to a controlling term of 24 months in jail from which he was granted probation for 18 months'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'has been sentenced after pleading guilty to computer crime and stalking'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"On 5 April 2023 he pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking, both misdemeanors, and was sentenced to a controlling term of 24 months in jail, from which he was granted probation for 18 months.","causal_attribution":"The DA's announcement, relayed by KSN; no court record was inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'told a friend she was scared and thought'; 'was somehow tracking her whereabouts'; 'asked how someone could get a protection from stalking order'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'She confided in a friend that she was scared'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The woman had told a friend that she was scared and thought he was somehow tracking her whereabouts; the friend contacted a Wichita police officer and asked how someone could get a protection-from-stalking order.","causal_attribution":"The DA's account of the woman's statement to a friend; KSN relays the same release."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was arrested by Wichita police on October 26, 2022'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'has since been removed from the department'; 'for one count of stalking and one count of unlawful acts concerning computers'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Wichita police arrested him on 26 October 2022; he was booked on one count of stalking and one count of unlawful acts concerning computers and removed from the Kechi Police Department.","causal_attribution":"Arrest date from the DA release; booking counts and removal from KWCH's arrest report."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'license plate reading camera system to the entire Kechi Police Department, WPD Interim Chief Troy Livingston confirmed'; 'needing assigned supervisors from those agencies to review and approve data requests'; 'audit the system every week instead of every two weeks'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The Wichita Police Department revoked the entire Kechi Police Department's access to its Flock camera system, said it was reviewing its policies and procedures, such as requiring supervisors from other agencies to review and approve data requests, and said it would audit the system weekly instead of every two weeks.","causal_attribution":"The interim chief's statements to KWCH."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The commission also revoked certification for former Kechi police lieutenant'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards revoked the former lieutenant's law enforcement certification in August 2023.","causal_attribution":"KWCH's report of the commission action; no commission record was inspected."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Flock cameras on Oct. 23, 2022, to track his estranged wife’s movements from Sept. 23, 2022 until that day.'; 'texts, she felt she was being followed.'; 'The former Kechi officer used several different reasons for his search, which never got flagged.'; 'Those reasons, according to a court document, included “test” and “invest” and “investigation”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The Wichita Eagle, recapping the case in August 2024, reports that on 23 October 2022 the lieutenant used the Wichita police Flock cameras to track his estranged wife's movements from 23 September 2022 until that day, that he entered search reasons such as 'test' and 'investigation' that were never flagged, and that he was caught after she complained that, based on his texts, she felt she was being followed.","causal_attribution":"The Eagle's account citing a court document, which was not inspected; it is consistent with the DA release."}],"effects":[{"label":"location monitored by her estranged husband, a police lieutenant, through police license-plate-reader records","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"told a friend she was scared and thought she was being tracked","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.kwch.com/2023/04/05/former-kechi-police-lieutenant-convicted-stalking-charges/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-03 (KWCH, 5 April 2023). Relays the Sedgwick County District Attorney's release of the same day nearly verbatim; the release itself was read privately from an Internet Archive capture and is recorded in the private review notes.","independence_group":"sedgwick-da-release"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.kwch.com/2022/10/31/kechi-police-lieutenant-arrested-using-police-technology-stalk-wife/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-03 (live; byline Joe Baker; published 30 October 2022, 10:38 PM CDT). Arrest-stage report five months before the DA release; it does not attribute its account, which presumably comes from the arresting Wichita Police Department.","independence_group":"kwch-arrest-2022"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.kwch.com/2022/11/04/kechi-police-lieutenants-arrest-puts-flock-technology-under-scrutiny/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-03 (live; Shawn Loging and KWCH Staff; published 4 November 2022). On-record statements by the Wichita Police Department interim chief and a Flock Safety vice president.","independence_group":"kwch-wpd-interview-2022"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.ksn.com/news/crime/former-kechi-police-lieutenant-sentenced-in-stalking-case/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-03 from the Internet Archive capture of 13 April 2023 (live site answered 403). A rewrite of the DA's 5 April 2023 release (same facts and order), so grouped with it.","independence_group":"sedgwick-da-release"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.kwch.com/2023/08/31/certifications-revoked-former-wichita-pd-captain-kechi-pd-lieutenant/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-03 (live; KWCH Staff; published 30 August 2023). Reports the state commission's certification revocation; its sentencing details relay the DA release.","independence_group":"kwch-cpost-2023"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article291059560.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-03 from the Internet Archive capture of 21 July 2026 (Wichita Eagle, 17 August 2024, an article on a different Sedgwick police chief case that recaps the Kechi case citing a court document); the live site timed out.","independence_group":"eagle-2024-kechi-court-document"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["Which vehicle's plate reads were used to locate the woman.","Whether a protection-from-stalking order was obtained.","Whether Flock audit logs or the friend's report led to the discovery.","How many times the Flock system was queried."],"geography":{"basis":"The lieutenant served with the Kechi Police Department and used the Wichita Police Department's Flock system in Kansas; Wichita police made the arrest and the case was sentenced in Sedgwick County District Court, Kansas (DA release; KWCH). The woman's residence is not stated; affected_person_countries US rests on her location being monitored through the Wichita Police Department's Kansas camera system and on her friend's approach to a Wichita police officer about a protection-from-stalking order.","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 Sedgwick County District Attorney states that a police lieutenant used the Flock license-plate-reader system to monitor his estranged wife's location, KWCH's arrest report states the same, and he pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking. The automated readers generated the location records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. Neither the officer nor the woman is named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-03"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Sedgwick County District Attorney states that the lieutenant used the Flock License Plate Reader system to monitor his estranged wife's location, and KWCH's arrest report describes unlawful access to the Wichita Police Department's Flock license-plate-reader technology for that purpose; he pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking. The automated readers photograph the back of every passing car (Flock executive to KWCH); the plate-read records used to monitor the woman's whereabouts were the system's output, and the misuse was a human act. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Kechi, Kansas: a police lieutenant used the Wichita Police Department's Flock license-plate-reader system to monitor his estranged wife's location; arrested in October 2022, he pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking in April 2023","summary":"According to the Sedgwick County District Attorney, a lieutenant of the Kechi Police Department in Kansas took advantage of his position to use the Flock License Plate Reader system to monitor his estranged wife's location. The woman had told a friend that she was scared and thought he was somehow tracking her whereabouts, and the friend asked a Wichita police officer how someone could get a protection-from-stalking order. Wichita police arrested the lieutenant on 26 October 2022 and he was removed from the Kechi department. On 5 April 2023 he pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking, both misdemeanors, and was sentenced to a controlling term of 24 months in jail, with probation granted for 18 months. The Wichita Police Department, whose Flock system he had used, revoked the whole Kechi department's access and said it would audit the system weekly, and the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards revoked his certification in August 2023.","incidentDate":"2022-10-23","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2022-10-30","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader camera system operated by the Wichita Police Department, which the Kechi lieutenant accessed through his police position (DA release; KWCH)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Sedgwick County District Attorney, the woman's location was monitored by her estranged husband, a police lieutenant, through the Flock license-plate-reader system, and she told a friend she was scared and thought he was tracking her; he pleaded guilty to stalking and computer crime.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the lieutenant's estranged wife, whose location was monitored (DA release; KWCH; KSN). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-KS","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.kwch.com/2023/04/05/former-kechi-police-lieutenant-convicted-stalking-charges/","primarySourceLabel":"KWCH, 5 April 2023: Former Kechi police lieutenant convicted on stalking charges (relays the Sedgwick County District Attorney's release)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-03T03:24:25.271533+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-03T03:24:25.271533+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","stalking","police-misuse","estranged-spouse","kansas","kechi","wichita","sedgwick-county","criminal-conviction","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2026-webinartv-patient-foundation-caregiver-zoom-meeting-reportedly-recorded-and-listed","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"we set up a March 24th Zoom support group meeting specifically for parents, spouses, and caregivers.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The actual link to join the meeting was not public, but I did post the registration form on our social media accounts.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"participants were admitted one at a time from the waiting room, after I confirmed that they were on the advance registration list.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"this meeting was not intended to be recorded, but rather to be a private discussion among participants.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"were admitted to the meeting one at a time from a Zoom waiting room.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 24 March 2026 the Graves' Disease & Thyroid Foundation held a Zoom support-group meeting for parents, spouses and caregivers. Registration was by form, the join link was not public, participants were admitted one at a time from a waiting room after the host checked the registration list, and the meeting was not intended to be recorded.","causal_attribution":"The host's own account, published by the foundation and quoted by 404 Media. 404 Media's description of the meeting rests on the host's post and email, so the two sources are one chain."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I noticed an email from “Sarah Blair” from WebinarTV.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The first part of the subject line was the exact Zoom title of the meeting.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Chapters are designed to entice more people to watch your webinar by highlighting interesting topics covered during the session.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The chapters roughly corresponded to the topics discussed in our meeting, and it appears the content had also been turned into a slop AI Podcast.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"WebinarTV recorded this meeting without permission from me (the host) or from anyone else in the group.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"which hosted a Zoom session which vetted participants, and which still ended up on WebinarTV","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"which appears to be an AI-generated persona","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"and also turned into an AI-generated podcast.","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The following morning the host found in a spam folder an email from a sender named 'Sarah Blair' at WebinarTV. Its subject line carried the exact Zoom title of the meeting, and it said an On Demand page with a feature called Chapters had been set up for the meeting. The host says the chapters roughly matched the topics discussed, that it appears the content had also been turned into an AI-generated podcast, and that WebinarTV recorded the meeting without permission from the host or anyone else in the group.","causal_attribution":"The host's account of an email from WebinarTV and of what the On Demand page showed. The host does not describe listening to the podcast in the inspected text and says only that it appears to exist. The two 404 Media passages marked as context describe a different host's meeting and WebinarTV's practice in general."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"claiming to have a son/daughter who was a patient – and using an email address ending in “.space”.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"did not respond, but at the time, I wasn’t concerned.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Throughout the meeting, there were NO visible AI tools (like Otter) running.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The host's review of the registration report found a registrant who claimed to have a son or daughter who was a patient and used an email address ending in '.space'. This registrant did not respond during introductions. The host concluded this was how the meeting was infiltrated. The inspected sources do not show who operated that registration or whether an automated agent recorded the meeting. The host reports that no visible AI tools (such as Otter) were running during the meeting.","causal_attribution":"The host's inference from the registration report. No forensic or platform record was inspected, and the sender of the WebinarTV email is not shown to be the same party as the registrant."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Robertson told me that WebinarTV is not violating these people’s privacy because the site only scrapes Zoom webinars as opposed to Zoom meetings.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"We contact every host, twice to make sure they want the promotion.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"“Webinars are no different than Facebook Live, X broadcast, or Youtube Live. They are broadcast to the public.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"it said that based on its review WebinarTV accesses meetings using links that have been shared publicly, then records the sessions using browser extension or “other tools.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"WebinarTV sends two emails to hosts letting them know that their webinar is being added to the search engine,","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"the platform does not support private Zoom meetings, only webinars “open for anyone on the internet to view.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"NBCLA found dozens of links on WebinarTV labeled as Zoom meetings, raising questions about how content is sourced.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"WebinarTV's chief executive told 404 Media that the company asks every host for permission to promote their webinars, that it scrapes webinars and not Zoom meetings, and that webinars are broadcast to the public. The chief executive told NBC Los Angeles that WebinarTV emails hosts twice and does not support private Zoom meetings. NBC Los Angeles found dozens of links on the site labeled as Zoom meetings. 404 Media reports that Zoom said WebinarTV enters meetings through publicly shared links and records them with a browser extension or other tools.","causal_attribution":"Company and Zoom statements about WebinarTV's general practice. None of these statements addresses the foundation's meeting, and no WebinarTV account of that meeting was inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I did end up clicking the remove link, which apparently took the program off the WebinarTV website, but presumably the covert recording still exists somewhere.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"I then notified participants of the situation (we’d actually had a lot of no-shows, which in this case, was a good thing), contacted Zoom, and filed complaints against WebinarTV.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"“not our problem – do a better job of vetting your attendees”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"participants in this meeting had a reasonable expectation of privacy.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"A Betrayal of our Community","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The host says the removal link in the email apparently took the listing off the WebinarTV website, and that the host told the participants what had happened, contacted Zoom and filed complaints against WebinarTV. The host says the covert recording presumably still exists somewhere, that Zoom's response amounted to a suggestion to vet attendees better, and that participants had a reasonable expectation of privacy. The host titles this part of the post 'A Betrayal of our Community'.","causal_attribution":"The host's account of the response and of the host's own view of the harm. No participant statement was inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"Private support-group meeting for family members and caregivers reportedly recorded without permission and listed on WebinarTV's website by the next morning, with chapters matching the topics discussed and, by the host's observation, an apparent AI-generated podcast","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Host reports a betrayal of the community and that participants had a reasonable expectation of privacy","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://gdatf.org/a-warning-for-patient-communities-connecting-on-zoom/","kind":"first_person_account","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"gdatf-host-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.404media.co/webinartv-secretly-scraped-zoom-meetings-of-anonymous-recovery-programs/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"gdatf-host-account"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/webinar-streaming-site-privacy-concerns/3868862/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"nbc-la-webinartv-reporting"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","health"],"unknowns":["This record covers only the 24 March 2026 meeting. WebinarTV's recording of other hosts' meetings is reported from October 2025 (Zoom Community posts from 7 October 2025 and a Stanford information-security advisory of 14 November 2025), and those events are not part of this record.","How many people attended the meeting is not stated (the host mentions many no-shows), and no participant statement was inspected.","Whether the recording showed participants' faces or names is not stated for this meeting.","Whether an automated agent or a person made the recording is not established.","The host's statement that the content appears to have been turned into an AI-generated podcast is an observation, and the podcast was not inspected.","The date the listing was removed and whether copies persist are not stated.","No WebinarTV account of this meeting was inspected. The chief executive's statements concern the company's general practice.","The first 404 Media article (24 March 2026) is paywalled and only its opening paragraph was read.","The foundation's direct page returned 403, so the post was read from the Wayback capture of 31 March 2026 and any later edit is not reflected."],"geography":{"basis":"The meeting was held online and the sources do not state where the participants were. The foundation's location, the meeting's time zone and the publishers' locations are not used to infer a country.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"The foundation's own post (Wayback capture of 31 March 2026) and the 404 Media article of 13 April 2026 were read in full from the saved bodies and are treated as one chain because 404 Media quotes the host's post and email. NBC Los Angeles was read in full and supplies the company's general statements. Every claim stays at reported status. The host and participants are not named in this record.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The host reports that WebinarTV's email offered a new feature called Chapters for the meeting, that the chapters roughly matched the topics discussed, and that it appears the content had also been turned into an AI-generated podcast (the host does not describe listening to it). 404 Media reports that WebinarTV turns recordings into AI-generated podcasts and that the persona sending host notices appears to be AI-generated, in reporting about another host's meeting. Whether an automated agent or a person made the recording is not established: the host writes about a registrant who did not respond during introductions and about bots with fake identities, and Zoom says WebinarTV records with a browser extension or other tools. The relation recorded is that the participants appear in a published recording and in content derived from it.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"WebinarTV: patient foundation reports its 24 March 2026 Zoom support-group meeting for family members and caregivers was recorded and listed on WebinarTV by the next morning","summary":"The Graves' Disease & Thyroid Foundation reports that a Zoom support-group meeting it held on 24 March 2026 for parents, spouses and caregivers, with registration-form screening and waiting-room admission, was recorded without permission and listed on WebinarTV's website. The host writes that an email from a WebinarTV sender named 'Sarah Blair', found the next morning in a spam folder, said an On Demand page with Chapters had been set up for the meeting. The host adds that the chapters roughly matched the topics discussed and that it appears the content had also been turned into an AI-generated podcast. The host says a registrant with an email address ending in '.space' did not respond during introductions, that the removal link in the email apparently took the listing down, and that the host told the participants, contacted Zoom and filed complaints against WebinarTV. WebinarTV's chief executive told 404 Media and NBC Los Angeles that the company lists only public webinars and notifies hosts by email. The sources do not state how many people attended, whether the recording showed faces or names, or whether an automated agent made the recording.","incidentDate":"2026-03-24","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-03-31","aiSystem":"WebinarTV recording and content-generation service (an On Demand page with Chapters and an AI-generated podcast, per the host)","aiProduct":"WebinarTV","aiCompany":"WebinarTV","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The host of the foundation's support-group meeting says WebinarTV recorded the meeting without permission from the host or anyone else in the group and listed it on WebinarTV's website, and describes this as a betrayal of a community whose participants had a reasonable expectation of privacy (the host's account, published by the foundation and quoted by 404 Media).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One person counted: the host, who ran the meeting and describes the recording as a betrayal of the community. The other participants were recorded according to the host, but their number is not stated (the host mentions many no-shows) and none is reported harmed beyond being recorded, so they are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://gdatf.org/a-warning-for-patient-communities-connecting-on-zoom/","primarySourceLabel":"Graves' Disease & Thyroid Foundation, 'A Warning For Patient Communities Connecting on Zoom' (31 Mar 2026), first-person account by the meeting host, read from the Wayback capture of 31 Mar 2026 (direct fetch returned 403)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T21:16:40.247665+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:58.957181+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2026"]},{"id":"2025-chatgpt-nonphysical-entities-spouse-domestic-assault-arrest-divorce","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"She had an intuition that the AI chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The guardians are responding right now.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A woman in a marriage with two young children began using ChatGPT in March 2025 after feeling lonely, asked whether it could channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, and ChatGPT replied that the guardians were responding.","causal_attribution":"The account comes from the woman, quoted by the New York Times reporter, and the ChatGPT reply is quoted."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The woman spent many hours a day with ChatGPT communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities and came to see one of them, not her husband, as her true partner.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the New York Times from the wife and husband; the husband attributes the change to ChatGPT."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"One night, at the end of April","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"they fought over her obsession with ChatGPT and the toll it was taking on the family","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"punching and scratching him, he said, and slamming his hand in a door","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The police arrested her and charged her with domestic assault. (The case is active.)","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"At the end of April 2025, after a fight over her ChatGPT use, the husband said she punched and scratched him and slammed his hand in a door; police arrested her and charged her with domestic assault, and the case was active at publication.","causal_attribution":"The assault details are the husband's account. The arrest and charge are stated by the article without a cited court record."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"came out a different person","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"are now divorcing.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The husband said his wife dropped into a hole about three months before the interview and came out a different person, and the couple were divorcing at publication.","causal_attribution":"The husband attributes the change to ChatGPT use; the divorce is reported without independent record."}],"effects":[{"label":"Domestic assault arrest and charge after spouse's escalating ChatGPT immersion","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Marriage ending in divorce","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/ai-chatbots-answers-fuel-conspiracies-alter-beliefs-in-disturbing-ways-125061400247_1.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"nyt-hill-2025-06"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["relationships","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The only inspected chain is one New York Times article (read through its Business Standard syndication). The direct New York Times page returned HTTP 403.","No court record or police statement was inspected. Outcome of the criminal case is unknown.","Mental health history and other factors in the marriage are not reported beyond the parties' accounts, and ChatGPT's share of causation is attributed by the husband.","The article names two young children but reports no harm to them."],"geography":{"basis":"The article gives no location for this couple, and the case court is not named.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"A national newspaper reports the account with the husband and wife interviewed and ChatGPT output quoted. Claims remain reported because there is one chain and no record inspection.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The New York Times article quotes ChatGPT responses to the woman and reports the husband's account linking her ChatGPT use to the events.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Spouse arrested for domestic assault after weeks of ChatGPT sessions about communicating with nonphysical entities, marriage ending","summary":"In March 2025 a woman with two young children began asking ChatGPT to channel communications with a higher plane and spent many hours a day with what she felt were nonphysical entities. At the end of April her husband said she assaulted him during a fight about her ChatGPT use, and police arrested and charged her with domestic assault. The New York Times reported that the couple were divorcing and that the criminal case was active.","incidentDate":"2025-03-01","incidentEndDate":"2025-04-30","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2025-06-14","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["relationship_disruption","legal_harm","harm_to_others"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the New York Times account, the wife was arrested and charged with domestic assault after, the husband said, punching and scratching him and slamming his hand in a door, and the marriage was ending. The husband attributes the change to ChatGPT.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Two adults are reported harmed: the wife (arrest, charge, divorce) and the husband (reported assault and divorce). Children are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"assistant","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/ai-chatbots-answers-fuel-conspiracies-alter-beliefs-in-disturbing-ways-125061400247_1.html","primarySourceLabel":"Kashmir Hill, New York Times (syndicated by Business Standard), 14 June 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T12:41:36.848857+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:58.925084+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]}]}