{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-09-30T06:26:00.947Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"workplace","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"contextual","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":1,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":2,"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-indianapolis-impd-officers-flock-alpr-misuse-stalking-charges","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'On Sept. 23, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office filed formal charges against the five individuals. In addition to fraud and misconduct, one officer faces charges of stalking.'; 'Internal audits in August and Sept. 2026 identified the misuse of automatic license plate reader (ALPR) technology.'; 'As more facts came to light, Terry suspended the four remaining officers and recommended they be fired.'; 'One officer later resigned, though the investigation into their conduct continued.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Four suspended officers and one former officer with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) were accused of fraud and official misconduct after reportedly misusing automatic license plate reader (ALPR) technology.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'On Sept. 23, Mears announced the charges against the five officers at a news conference.'; 'received 26 counts, including 12 counts of fraud and two counts of stalking.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 23 September 2026 the Marion County Prosecutor's Office charged four suspended IMPD officers and one former officer with fraud and official misconduct, and one of them with two counts of stalking, after internal audits in August and September 2026 identified misuse of the department's automated license-plate-reader system; the chief suspended four and recommended their dismissal and one resigned.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutor's announcement and IMPD statements as reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Prosecutors identified 1,396 ALPR searches'; 'began to search her license plate in Flock just nine days later.'; 'created a Facebook account with a fake name to message her.'; 'also used Flock cameras to stalk two other women: his ex-wife and a woman he met at her place of employment in Greenwood, according to the probable cause affidavit.'; 'He told the woman he was an FBI agent and that he was conducting surveillance in the parking lot.'; 'conducted unauthorized surveillance of 11 individuals: seven women and four men, according to the probable cause affidavit.'; 'used the Flock camera system to search for two different license plates, one being his ex-wife’s, between April 2024 and April 2025.'; 'made 1,616 searches, according to the probable cause affidavit.'; 'He used another officer’s credentials to conduct the searches.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to prosecutors, the probable cause affidavit and court documents as reported by WISH-TV, one officer made 1,396 searches with no apparent law-enforcement purpose and used the system to stalk a woman he met at a workout class in September 2023 (searching her plate nine days later and messaging her from a Facebook account under a false name), his ex-wife and a woman he met at her workplace (telling her he was an FBI agent), conducting unauthorised surveillance of 11 people, seven women and four men; another officer made 1,616 searches for two plates, one his ex-wife's, between April 2024 and April 2025 using another officer's credentials.","causal_attribution":"Probable cause affidavit as quoted by WISH-TV; not inspected directly. Allegations in untried cases."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'IMPD discovered the alleged misuse after one officer self-reported, according to Terry. After that, an audit revealed officers allegedly misused the database for thousands of searches.'; 'We still have about 301 cameras that IMPD leases as a use of part of our system,'; 'Each individual count is associated with a license plate, meaning that whether or not an officer is alleged to have searched a license plate 10 times, or 100 times, or even 1,000 times, that will be one individual count of fraud,'; 'Through a shared network, IMPD can access thousands of cameras across the country.'; 'IMPD has no plans to reduce the number of Flock cameras it leases.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Every user must now sign the policy to keep access. All searches must also include a case or incident number and a federal offense code.'; 'adopted a single login system to prevent shared credentials.'; 'IMPD also increased auditing to find misuse faster'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"IMPD discovered the misuse after one officer self-reported and an audit followed; the prosecutor said each count corresponds to one license plate regardless of how many times it was searched; the department leases about 301 Flock cameras, can search a shared national network, has required a signed policy, case numbers, single logins and more audits, and will not reduce its cameras.","causal_attribution":"Chief's and prosecutor's statements as reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The department learned of the behavior on Aug. 6 and immediately stripped the officer of police powers.'; 'Terry told Indiana’s I-Team that the officer accessed the Flock camera system hundreds of times to monitor a small group of license plates that had no connection to any official investigation.'; 'The police department is auditing its records to ensure no other officers are abusing the system.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 13 August 2026 the chief recommended firing an officer who had accessed the Flock system hundreds of times to monitor a small group of plates with no connection to an investigation, which the department learned of on 6 August 2026; an audit of other officers' use followed.","causal_attribution":"Chief's statements to WISH-TV's I-Team."}],"effects":[{"label":"at least 12 people had their vehicle movements searched in a police license-plate-reader system without a law-enforcement purpose, one of them as part of stalking with contact under a false identity","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/4-suspended-1-former-impd-officer-charged-after-license-plate-reader-audit/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en-US","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (WISH-TV, Kendall Pierson, 23 September 2026; html lang=en-US). Reports the charges and quotes the probable cause affidavit.","independence_group":"impd-prosecutor-announcement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.wthitv.com/2026/09/23/five-officers-charged-after-indiana-police-department-finds-alpr-technology-misuse/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (WNDU report carried by WTHI, 23 September 2026). Same charges; notes one officer's identity withheld because the warrant is sealed.","independence_group":"impd-prosecutor-announcement"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.wvxu.org/2026-09-24/five-indianapolis-police-officers-charged-for-misusing-flock-cameras","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (WFYI Public Media report carried by WVXU, Zak Cassel, 24 September 2026). Prosecutor's news conference, the chief's interview, camera numbers and policy changes.","independence_group":"impd-prosecutor-announcement"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://gizmodo.com/five-indianapolis-cops-charged-with-misusing-flock-cameras-including-one-case-of-stalking-2000816822","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en-US","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Gizmodo, 24 September 2026). Summary of the charges relying on The Washington Post's reporting and IMPD's statement posted on X; adds no independent chain (same independence group).","independence_group":"impd-prosecutor-announcement"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team/chief-recommends-firing-impd-officer-who-misused-license-plate-readers/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en-US","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (WISH-TV I-Team, Tim Spears and John Herrick, 13 August 2026, updated 23 September). Background: the first officer's misuse, learned of on 6 August 2026, and the audit.","independence_group":"impd-prosecutor-announcement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","public_services","relationships"],"unknowns":["Who the people searched by the other three charged officers were and how many there were; the read reports give countable descriptions only for two officers' targets. Gizmodo, citing The Washington Post, says the officer who resigned searched information on relatives of her spouse's former partner, without giving a number.","What consequences the tracked people experienced beyond the surveillance and, in one case, unwanted contact; the woman met at the workout class is reported to have believed the officer was obsessed with her.","Whether the fifth officer's identity is public: WNDU says one warrant is sealed while other outlets name all five.","The outcome of the charges and of the recommended dismissals.","Whether The Washington Post's reporting, credited by the prosecutor, identified further cases.","When the last unauthorised search occurred; the reports date one officer's searches to April 2024-April 2025 and the audits to August and September 2026."],"geography":{"basis":"Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department's Flock system in Marion County, Indiana; the tracked people were met in central Indiana (a workout class at a high school and a workplace in Greenwood, Indiana, per WISH-TV); charges filed by the Marion County Prosecutor's Office (WISH-TV, WFYI).","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 in which an automated license-plate-reader system's records about identifiable people were misused by police officers for stalking and personal surveillance, documented by criminal charges announced by the Marion County Prosecutor and the probable cause affidavit as quoted by WISH-TV, with four local and national reports relaying the same chain. Claims are recorded as reported (the affidavit was not inspected). The tracked people are unnamed; the charged officers are not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The prosecutor and IMPD attribute the searches to the Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader system, whose cameras photograph plates and whose software logs them to a searchable database (WFYI/WVXU); the officers queried the system's records about identifiable people's vehicles. The automated readers generated the location records; the misuse is recorded as human acts.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Indianapolis: five current and former police officers were charged on 23 September 2026 with fraud and official misconduct, one also with stalking, after audits found thousands of Flock automated license-plate-reader searches with no law-enforcement purpose, including one officer's tracking of 11 people (seven women and four men) and another's 1,616 searches that included his ex-wife's plate (WISH-TV, WNDU, WFYI/WVXU, Gizmodo)","summary":"On 23 September 2026 the Marion County Prosecutor's Office charged four suspended Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) officers and one former officer with fraud and official misconduct after internal audits in August and September 2026 found misuse of the department's Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader (ALPR) system; one officer was also charged with two counts of stalking. According to prosecutors, the probable cause affidavit and court documents as reported by WISH-TV, that officer made 1,396 searches with no apparent law-enforcement purpose, began searching the plate of a woman he met at a workout class in September 2023 nine days after meeting her and messaged her from a Facebook account under a false name, also tracked his ex-wife and a woman he met at her workplace (telling her he was an FBI agent), and in total conducted unauthorised surveillance of 11 people, seven women and four men. Another officer made 1,616 searches between April 2024 and April 2025 for two plates, one his ex-wife's, using another officer's credentials. The chief placed the officers on desk duty, revoked their ALPR access, suspended four and recommended their dismissal; one resigned. The department said the misuse came to light after an officer self-reported and an audit followed; the prosecutor said each count corresponds to one license plate. IMPD, which leases about 301 Flock cameras and can search a shared national network, has since required every user to sign its ALPR policy, tied each search to a case number, adopted single logins and increased audits, and said it will not reduce its cameras.","incidentDate":"2023-09-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-23","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license plate readers: camera stations that photograph plates and software that logs them to a searchable database (IMPD leases about 301 cameras and can search a shared national network)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"At least 12 people, including two officers' ex-wives and a woman an officer met at a workout class, had their vehicle movements searched in the police license-plate-reader system without a law-enforcement purpose, in one case as part of stalking that included contact under a false identity; the surveillance is documented in the charging affidavit as reported by WISH-TV and the prosecutor's announcement. No physical harm is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":12,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"WISH-TV, citing the probable cause affidavit: one officer 'conducted unauthorized surveillance of 11 individuals: seven women and four men'; a second officer searched two plates, 'one being his ex-wife's' (one identified person; the other plate's owner is not described). Documented minimum 12, treating the second officer's ex-wife as distinct from the first officer's 11 (the reports do not say otherwise). The people searched by the other three officers are not counted because no read report gives a number for them (Gizmodo, citing The Washington Post, describes one officer's targets only as relatives of her spouse's former partner).","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/4-suspended-1-former-impd-officer-charged-after-license-plate-reader-audit/","primarySourceLabel":"WISH-TV, 23 September 2026: 4 suspended, 1 former IMPD officer charged after license plate reader audit","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-25T03:54:28.345739+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:40.156452+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police","stalking","privacy","indianapolis","indiana","criminal-charges","institutional-use","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2025-washington-il-snapchat-flag-student-teacher-arrest","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The social media site flagged the message and warned the FBI, which then notified the Sheriff's Office'; 'the office had been informed on Jan. 29, 2025, at 1:06 p.m. that the FBI had received a threat via Snapchat involving someone at John A. Hensey School in Washington.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"District email: 'The use of that obviously inappropriate language on the social media site triggered a report to law enforcement who subsequently interviewed the student teacher.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Snapchat's systems flagged the woman's private group-chat message and warned the FBI, which notified the Tazewell County Sheriff's Office on 29 January 2025 at 1:06 p.m.","causal_attribution":"One outlet group (Peoria Journal Star) carrying two distinct records (sheriff's reports via FOIA; the district's email). The flagging technology is unspecified; no second independent outlet describes the mechanism, so the claim stays reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'In a chat with her boyfriend and her two roommates, she advised whether she should \"shoot the child or just the whole school?\"' (sheriff's reports).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Volpe sent the message to her friends, asking them whether she should \"shoot\" the student.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The flagged message asked whether she should 'shoot the child or just the whole school' (sheriff's reports' rendering); the district's email and 25News Now report her asking friends whether she should 'shoot' the student.","causal_attribution":"Wordings differ slightly between the sheriff's reports and the district/25News accounts; both versions are attributed. She confirmed sending the message and said it was a joke."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Body-cam account: interview in an empty classroom, Miranda rights, the flagged message shown, consent forms, classroom search finding nothing; 'she would be arrested in Tazewell County'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'deputies arrested [her] at John L. Hensey Elementary School around 1 p.m. Wednesday. She was booked into the Tazewell County Jail for disorderly conduct.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Deputies interviewed her at the school, read her Miranda rights, searched her phone and belongings with consent and found no weapons; they arrested her on a disorderly conduct charge and she was booked into the Tazewell County Jail.","causal_attribution":"The arrest and booking are established by two independent local outlets; the interview detail comes from the FOIA body-cam footage and police reports."},{"id":"c4","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Deputies interviewed her and came to the conclusion that she made the comment out of \"exasperation,\" had no intentions to harm anyone, and was not a threat to the school.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"District email: 'Law enforcement officers quickly determined that the student teacher made the statement out of exasperation... but did not have any actual intent to shoot anyone or otherwise cause harm.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Sheriff's Office and the district concluded the remark was made out of exasperation, with no intent to harm and no threat to the school.","causal_attribution":"Both the district's letter and the deputies' own conclusion are attributed; no source reports any contrary finding."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'it said the student teacher would not be returning to District 50 to complete her assignment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Superintendent Chad Allaman's letter: 'Volpe is not returning to the school to finish her educational assignment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The district told parents she would not return to District 50 to complete her educational assignment.","causal_attribution":"The district's decision is attributed to its own letter carried by two outlets."}],"effects":[{"label":"arrest and loss of a teaching placement after an automated flag escalated a private joke to law enforcement","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/local/2026/04/10/how-an-fbi-tip-led-to-arrest-of-a-student-teacher-in-washington-illinois/88217675007/","kind":"news_report_foia_records","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2026-04-10T11:15Z; 34 paragraphs). Based on sheriff's deputy and detective reports plus body-camera footage obtained by FOIA from the Tazewell County Sheriff's Office.","independence_group":"pjstar"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/education/2025/01/30/washington-il-student-teacher-makes-inappropriate-shooting-comment-district-says/78061557007/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2025-01-30T23:13Z). Based on the District 50 email to parents; withheld the teacher's name.","independence_group":"pjstar"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/01/31/exasperated-student-teacher-wont-return-after-allegedly-commenting-about-shooting-student/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2025-01-31T17:07Z). Attributes to deputies and the school district; names the teacher from jail records — the name is deliberately not carried into this public record.","independence_group":"week-25news"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2026/08/snapchat-scans-your-private-group-chats-and-a-22-year-old-teacher-found-out-when-deputies-showed-up-to-arrest-her-over-a-joke/","kind":"content_farm_rehash","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2026-08-02). Two substantive paragraphs, 'reportedly' framing, no place, date or document; derivative of the 2025 local reporting with embellishments. Recorded for provenance; never cited as support.","independence_group":"thought-catalog"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["education","work","justice","privacy"],"unknowns":["The disposition of the disorderly conduct charge (dismissal, plea, supervision) is not reported in the inspected sources.","The flagging technology Snapchat used (automated classifiers, hash matching or otherwise) is not specified in the inspected records.","Whether she continued teacher training elsewhere is not reported.","The school's name appears as 'John A. Hensey School' (Peoria Journal Star) and 'John L. Hensey Elementary School' (25News Now); the discrepancy is unresolved.","The exact interval between sending the message and the FBI referral is not stated; content-farm claims of 'within an hour' are unverified."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: John A. Hensey School, Washington, Illinois (25News Now renders the school name 'John L. Hensey Elementary School'), and the Tazewell County Jail. Affected person: the student teacher at that school. No court proceeding is reported, so court_countries is [].","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional-use automated-moderation case: a consequential institutional response (arrest, placement loss) to an automated flag of a private message, documented by FOIA-based local reporting. She is an adult; although local TV named her from jail records, she is not named here because deputies cleared her of intent and republication adds reputational risk without evidential value.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Police reports obtained under FOIA state 'the social media site flagged the message and warned the FBI', and the district's email says the language use 'triggered a report to law enforcement'; no human reporter was involved. The flagging technology (automated classifiers or otherwise) is not specified in the inspected records.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_decision_about","made_claim_about"]},"name":"Washington, Illinois: Snapchat flagged a student teacher's private joke to the FBI; she was arrested at her school and lost her placement","summary":"On 29 January 2025, a 22-year-old student teacher at a District 50 elementary school in Washington, Illinois, vented in a private Snapchat group chat with her boyfriend and two roommates after a third-grade student turned off her computer mid lesson-plan, asking whether she should 'shoot the child or just the whole school' (per sheriff's reports). Snapchat's systems flagged the message and warned the FBI, which notified the Tazewell County Sheriff's Office at 1:06 p.m. Deputies interviewed her at the school, confirmed she sent it as a joke, searched her phone and belongings with her consent and found no weapons, and arrested her on a disorderly conduct charge; they concluded she had spoken out of 'exasperation' with no intent to harm and no threat to the school. The district told parents she would not return to complete her educational assignment.","incidentDate":"2025-01-29","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-01-30","aiSystem":"Snapchat automated content-flagging system","aiProduct":"Snapchat content-flagging system","aiCompany":"Snap Inc.","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm","professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A private joke flagged by an automated system led to an armed-response interview at her workplace, arrest and jail booking on a disorderly conduct charge, and the loss of her student-teaching placement, although deputies and the district concluded she never intended harm.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One documented harmed person: the student teacher, subject to the platform's institutional automated flagging (counted under institutional use, not as an AI user). No student or staff member was aware of the conversation per the district; the referenced third-grade student is not counted as harmed (deputies found no threat and no one else saw the private message).","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/local/2026/04/10/how-an-fbi-tip-led-to-arrest-of-a-student-teacher-in-washington-illinois/88217675007/","primarySourceLabel":"Peoria Journal Star (10 Apr 2026) — FOIA-based account: sheriff's reports and body-camera footage","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-15T05:24:48.263548+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:21.046347+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["privacy","automated-moderation","snapchat","education","arrest","institutional-use","illinois"]}]}