{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-03T08:44:19.255Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"stalking-allegation","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"contextual","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":1,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-pasadena-texas-police-sergeant-flock-alpr-misuse-fellow-officer","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Guerrero quoted: 'was using our camera system, our Flock system, to track and stalk a female officer'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Guerrero quoted: 'the second allegation was the stalking and following of a female police officer'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'the officer is accused of using the cameras to track the movements of a female officer'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Guerrero quoted: 'use it to specifically track another female officer'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Pasadena City Council Member Emmanuel Guerrero said the sergeant was investigated for using the police department's Flock license-plate-reader system to track and stalk a female fellow officer.","causal_attribution":"One council member's account, given separately to three outlets. KPRC says it has not independently verified the allegation, and the department has not released its findings."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Guerrero quoted: 'it was an overwhelming use that the system itself flagged and notified that account associated to the officer'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Guerrero quoted: 'the system, after so much usage, pinged'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The council member said the Flock system itself flagged the heavy use of the sergeant's account.","causal_attribution":"The council member's understanding; no audit record has been published."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"department spokesperson quoted: 'resigned while under investigation'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'confirmed the sergeant resigned July 8 but said the investigation would continue'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The sergeant resigned from the Pasadena Police Department while under an internal investigation.","causal_attribution":"Confirmed separately by the police department (KPRC) and by the mayor (ABC13)."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"statement by the mayor: 'this investigation was started in May of 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'confirmed the sergeant resigned July 8'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The City of Pasadena said the investigation began in May 2026, and the mayor gave the resignation date as 8 July 2026.","causal_attribution":"The mayor's statements as carried by ABC13."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"department statement: 'The matter was resolved through an agreement requiring the individual to surrender'; 'peace officer license in lieu of criminal prosecution.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"spokesperson for the district attorney: 'subject to an agreement with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office'; 'no longer a licensed peace officer in the State of Texas'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"After resigning, the former sergeant surrendered the Texas peace officer license under an agreement with the Harris County District Attorney's Office in lieu of criminal prosecution.","causal_attribution":"Stated separately by the police department (KPRC) and the district attorney's office (ABC13)."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Neither the Harris County District Attorney’s Office nor the Pasadena Police Department would confirm whether the surrender of'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'have not publicly released investigative findings detailing what led to the licensing agreement'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Neither the police department nor the district attorney's office would confirm whether the license surrender was related to the alleged Flock misuse, and the department has not released the investigative findings.","causal_attribution":"The link between the Flock allegation and the license surrender has not been confirmed by any official source."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"department statement: 'arising from allegations made by two employees against one another have been completed'; 'Both employees resigned prior to the completion of the administrative investigation'; 'In one matter, the District Attorney’s Office declined prosecution.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The department said the administrative and criminal investigations arose from allegations made by two employees against one another, that both employees resigned before the administrative investigation finished, and that prosecutors declined prosecution in one of the two matters.","causal_attribution":"The department's statement as published by FOX 26; it does not identify the second employee or say which matter was declined."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'responded to the same officer reporting'; 'suspended indefinitely in March 2025'; 'modified to a 30-day suspension'; 'returned to the Pasadena Police Department in August 2025'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"ABC13 reported from internal-affairs documents that the sergeant had been suspended indefinitely in March 2025 over the response to a female officer's harassment complaint, that the suspension was reduced to 30 days on appeal, and that the sergeant returned to duty in August 2025.","causal_attribution":"ABC13's reading of internal-affairs documents. These earlier findings concern harassment, and the documents as reported do not mention Flock."},{"id":"c9","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'client disputes the allegations against'; 'the former police chief’s conclusions about'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'attorney declined to comment when contacted by KPRC 2'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"In ABC13's 7 August report on the internal-affairs file, the former sergeant's attorney said the client disputes the allegations against the client and the former police chief's conclusions about the client's conduct, and declined to comment to KPRC on the license surrender.","causal_attribution":"The attorney's response as reported."},{"id":"c10","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In May, the department opened an investigation into the sergeant for potentially misusing Flock cameras.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"ABC13, which reviewed internal-affairs documents from the sergeant's file, reported that in May the department opened an investigation into the sergeant for potentially misusing Flock cameras.","causal_attribution":"ABC13's own reporting; the article does not say whether this statement comes from the documents, and no official has confirmed the investigation's subject."}],"effects":[{"label":"a female fellow officer's movements allegedly tracked through the police department's Flock license-plate-reader system by a sergeant, according to a city council member","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/07/10/pasadena-police-sergeant-resigns-while-under-internal-investigation-council-member-cites-alleged-misuse-of-flock-camer/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on 2026-10-03 (KPRC 2 Click2Houston, 10 July 2026, updated 27 August). Interview with the council member and the department's statement confirming the resignation; includes a Flock Safety description of its cameras. Police1 (16 July) relays this report and is not cited.","independence_group":"kprc"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://abc13.com/post/pasadena-police-officer-accused-misusing-flock-camera-councilmember-says/19501287/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on 2026-10-03 (ABC13 Houston/KTRK, 14 July 2026). Separate interview with the council member; carries the mayor's statement on when the investigation began.","independence_group":"abc13"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://abc13.com/post/what-internal-docs-reveal-pasadena-officer-investigated-flock-misuse/19638729/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on 2026-10-03 (ABC13 Houston/KTRK; the page is dated 7 August 2026). Reports internal-affairs documents from the sergeant's file and the attorney's response.","independence_group":"abc13"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/08/10/pasadena-police-sergeant-surrenders-texas-law-enforcement-license-after-internal-investigation-closes-2/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on 2026-10-03 (KPRC 2 Click2Houston, 10 August 2026, updated 27 August). Quotes the department's statement on the license surrender.","independence_group":"kprc"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://abc13.com/post/former-pasadena-officer-avoids-prosecution-surrendering-license-harris-county-district-attorneys-office-says/19669987/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on 2026-10-03 (ABC13 Houston/KTRK, 12 August 2026). Quotes the Harris County District Attorney's Office spokesperson.","independence_group":"abc13"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.fox26houston.com/news/pasadena-police-department-releases-statement-regarding-employees-involved-flock-camera-misuse","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on 2026-10-03 (FOX 26 Houston, 12 August 2026). Full text of the department's 12 August statement and the council member's earlier remarks to FOX 26.","independence_group":"fox26"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use","institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["When the searches took place, how many there were and what they returned; the city says only that the investigation began in May 2026.","Whether the tracked officer was told of the searches or experienced further consequences.","Whether the second employee in the department's statement is the tracked officer.","Whether the license surrender relates to the Flock allegation; neither the department nor the district attorney's office would say."],"geography":{"basis":"The sergeant and the tracked officer both worked for the Pasadena Police Department in Pasadena, Texas (KPRC, ABC13, FOX 26 datelines and reports). No court proceeding is reported; the matter was resolved by an agreement with the Harris County District Attorney's Office.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a contextual case (made_claim_about) consistent with the earlier officer-misuse rows for Flock license-plate readers: a council member says a police sergeant used the department's readers to track a fellow officer, the sergeant resigned during the investigation and later surrendered the Texas peace officer license in lieu of prosecution. The tracking account is an allegation. The sergeant has not been charged and is not named here; the tracked officer is not identified in any source.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-03"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"A Pasadena city council member, interviewed by KPRC, ABC13 and FOX 26, says the sergeant used the department's Flock Safety license-plate-reader system to track a female officer, and that the system flagged the heavy use of the account. The AI component is identified by product category only: automated license-plate-reader cameras that read passing vehicles by machine (Flock describes them to KPRC as built to identify the plate, make, model and colour of vehicles). The location records about the officer's vehicle are the system's automated claims about that officer's movements; the searches and their purpose are recorded as the sergeant's own acts. No inspected source uses the word AI or says what the searches returned. ABC13 separately reports, in its own voice, that the department opened an investigation in May into the sergeant for potentially misusing Flock cameras; no official statement names Flock.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Pasadena, Texas: a police sergeant accused by a city council member of using the department's Flock license-plate readers to track a female fellow officer resigned in July 2026 and surrendered the Texas peace officer license in lieu of prosecution; officials would not say whether the surrender related to the Flock allegation","summary":"According to Pasadena City Council Member Emmanuel Guerrero, speaking to KPRC 2, ABC13 and FOX 26 from July 2026, a sergeant in the Pasadena, Texas, police department was investigated for using the department's Flock license-plate-reader system to track and stalk a female fellow officer, and the system flagged the heavy use of the account. The city says the investigation began in May 2026. The sergeant resigned on 8 July 2026 while under investigation, and in August the department and the Harris County District Attorney's Office said the former sergeant had surrendered the Texas peace officer license under an agreement in lieu of criminal prosecution. Neither office would confirm that the surrender related to the Flock allegation, and the department has not released its findings. Its statement describes allegations made by two employees against one another. The former sergeant's attorney told ABC13 that the client disputes the allegations.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-07-10","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras operated by the Pasadena Police Department, whose records a sergeant is alleged to have searched to track a fellow officer","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to City Council Member Emmanuel Guerrero (KPRC, ABC13, FOX 26), a Pasadena police sergeant used the department's Flock license-plate-reader system to track a female fellow officer; the department has not released its findings and the former sergeant's attorney disputes the allegations.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The council member's allegation concerns one female officer (KPRC, ABC13, FOX 26). Documented minimum 1; the department's findings have not been released.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-TX","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/07/10/pasadena-police-sergeant-resigns-while-under-internal-investigation-council-member-cites-alleged-misuse-of-flock-camer/","primarySourceLabel":"KPRC 2 Click2Houston, 10 July 2026: Pasadena police sergeant resigns while under internal investigation","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-03T03:24:13.992879+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-03T03:24:13.992879+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock-safety","alpr","police-misuse","texas","pasadena-texas","stalking-allegation","license-surrender","made-claim-about"]}]}