{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0391","record_version":1,"title":"Former Texas teacher pleads guilty to possessing AI-generated explicit images of students","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":42.0,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":0.0,"completeness":2.24,"unhedged_language":4.55},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":0,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":false,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"391103775e4acc3f057aebc9f5e62d220c6017c2981ee4f6fe50855e4209d2d8"},"system":{"model_name":null,"model_version":null,"developer":"unknown","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":null,"safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-01-06","incident_class":"harmful_output","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"A former Austin ISD elementary school teacher, Carl David Innmon, pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing child sexual abuse material. The sources describe an AI image generator, which they do not name, being used with real photographs of students from a classroom to alter those images. Court documents state that over 365,000 images were found on his devices. A law enforcement undercover operation that began in May 2023 traced a computer sharing such material to an IP address registered to him in late February. Investigators then surveilled his home, executed a search warrant and seized devices. Two children were identified as students at the school where he worked. He faces up to 20 years in prison.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"major","severity_because":"Major test met: a stated count of two or more affected parties (two children identified as students), with a law enforcement investigation in federal court; the quoted sentence states the two identified children.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.fox7austin.com/news/carl-innmon-guilty-plea-ai-generated-child-sex-abuse-material","publisher":"FOX 7 Austin","date":"2026-01-06","type":"press","title":"Former Texas teacher accused of using AI to make explicit images of students pleads guilty to possession - FOX 7 Austin","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"context.country":"C","event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"context.country":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"AUSTIN, Texas - A former Austin ISD elementary school teacher has pled guilty in federal court to possessing child sexual abuse material, or CSAM."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Some of the images were found to be AI-generated from real images of students in a classroom setting."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Two children were identified as students at the school where he worked."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Two children were identified as students at the school where he worked."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Some of the images were found to be AI-generated from real images of students in a classroom setting."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Court documents say he was found in possession of over 365,000 images of CSAM, including images of minors under 12."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Court paperwork filed by Texas DPS last March says that in May 2023, DPS investigators began an undercover operation to identify people using torrent and peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing sites to receive and share images and videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM)."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"In late February, a subpoena revealed the computer's IP address was registered to Innmon."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"A search warrant was executed, and Innmon allegedly told investigators he had downloaded images of CSAM."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Two children were identified as students at the school where he worked."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"51-year-old Carl David Innmon now faces up to 20 years in prison."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"Only one source (FOX 7 Austin, a press report citing US Attorney and court documents) covers this incident. The AI generator is not named, so system fields (model, developer, harness, version, deployment context) are omitted. This is not an autonomous agent case: agent_involved is set to false by judgement, and no failure_class is given. The trigger human_misuse is my judgement from the statement that images were placed in an AI generator by the offender. The offending download period (2024-12-29 to 2025-01-15) concerns downloads of CSAM, not the AI generation, so no date_occurred is given. No date_disclosed is stated in the source (the article date of 2026-01-06 is not given as a disclosure date), so it is omitted. Detection is attributed to third_party because the undercover investigation was run by law enforcement, a judgement since the closed list has no government option. Controls: the sources describe no platform or generator safeguards, so no controls are recorded. Severity major rests on the stated count of two identified children. The affected-party count of 2 covers only the identified children. Remediations, root cause, responsible party, adversarial actor, reversibility, and financial figures are not stated and are omitted. 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