{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0650","record_version":1,"title":"Flock camera misread leads to armed police stop of driver of a Range Rover in Plymouth, Minnesota","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":50.8,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":15.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":0.0,"completeness":2.56,"unhedged_language":4.62},"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":"1 report: Futurism · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":3,"reports_independent":1,"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":"1 report: Futurism · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"9f0e0d1d1edd02fdf119bc44826b5bfe8ba94bb25b2c9f98c980972c8052745d"},"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":"Deploying license plate readers and cameras for police departments that track vehicles and pedestrians","safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-07-08","incident_class":"operational_error","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"A car reviewer testing a Range Rover went out for errands with his wife on a Sunday afternoon in late June in Minnesota. Police had been tracking the car for days using Flock license plate cameras and boxed it in at a Kohl's parking lot. The alert rested on a plate recorded as 34 DTM, while the car's New Jersey manufacturer plate was 34 03 DTM, and the system did not read the small middle number. Officers learned the cause after the driver reached Jaguar Land Rover by phone. The police report later recorded that the plate had been reported lost, not stolen, and that it was entered incorrectly. The sources state the driver and passenger were cooperative during the stop. Jaguar Land Rover then moved to have the originating police department correct its report so the Flock system would be updated.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":"data","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":"Test: many third parties (a stated count of two or more affected parties). Fact: the source states four other 34 ## DTM cars were being tracked around Minnesota that week.","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.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-me-for-days-over-stolen-plates-and-sent-police-after-me","publisher":"The Drive","date":"2026-07-08","type":"press","title":"How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me - The Drive","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"},{"url":"https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-cameras-police-swarm-innocent-man","publisher":"Futurism","date":"2026-07-09","type":"press","title":"Flock Cameras Screw Up, Swarm Innocent Man With Armed Police - Futurism","archived_url":null,"independence":"independent"},{"url":"https://www.thedrive.com/podcast/flocks-ceo-wants-zero-wrongful-stops-i-wasnt-the-first","publisher":"The Drive","date":"2026-07-29","type":"press","title":"Flock's CEO Finally Faced Me After My Wrongful Stop. Here's What I Learned - The Drive","archived_url":null}],"per_field_confidence":{"system.intended_use":"C","event.root_cause":"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","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"system.intended_use":[{"source_index":1,"quote":"Flock has surged to national attention in the past year, as police departments across the country partner with the firm to deploy its license plate readers and video cameras that can track vehicles and pedestrians."}],"event.root_cause":[{"source_index":2,"quote":"As a recap, if you’re one of the millions of people that did not read the story or hear the podcast, a human error led to a police officer entering incorrectly an incomplete plate number into the National Crime Information Center database."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In fact, four other 34 ## DTM cars were being tracked around Minnesota that week, according to Officer Ganshyn."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In fact, four other 34 ## DTM cars were being tracked around Minnesota that week, according to Officer Ganshyn."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The Plymouth Police Department had been tracking me for days using Flock license plate cameras, waiting for the right moment to strike, because they thought I’d stolen the Range Rover."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"And Flock’s AI tech wasn’t registering that non-standard little number when it began picking up the Range Rover around town."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"It just saw 34 DTM in large type and started alerting the local police."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM, not 34 10 DTM."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The corporation had to report the plate as lost to law enforcement."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"After a few tries, I managed to get someone at JLR on the phone and handed the call off to the officer, who spoke with them for about 10 minutes."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The only way to stop it would be for the LAPD to correct their initial report and update Flock’s system, which Jaguar Land Rover was now racing to make happen following the phone call."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Both the driver and the passenger were cooperative and exited the vehicle without issue."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources do not state the exact date or year of the incident; only late June on a Sunday is given, so date_occurred is omitted. Date_disclosed and date_detected are not quoted in any sentence, so they are omitted. No model name, version, or harness is stated. The Flock system is an ALPR camera network and no source describes an autonomous agent, so agent and failure fields are omitted. Trigger, detection method and responsible party are not stated in closed-list terms and are omitted. Severity is judged major because the source states a count of four other affected vehicles; the press car owner and the four other vehicles are treated as third parties, which is my judgement. The sources do not state a remediation by Flock or by police for this incident; a Plymouth suppression step is mentioned only in the CEO interview and is not recorded as a remediation. Control links rely on the driver's account and the CEO interview. Control C3 is taken from the press account of the AI not registering the small number. No money, record counts or durations are stated and none are given. 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