{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0709","record_version":1,"title":"Innocent driver held at gunpoint over Flock camera error","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":42.1,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":0.0,"completeness":1.92,"unhedged_language":5.0},"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":"Only a republished copy: Yahoo · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":0,"reports_derivative":1,"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":"Only a republished copy: Yahoo · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"51987875168dd84adb34a4b665c7129dc059cb5de88f9925d4cd3dd3569cbc85"},"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":"2026-08-09","incident_class":"operational_error","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"A Flock Safety automated license plate reader, which scans plates and checks them against crime databases, flagged a vehicle on Interstate 94 as connected to an active Milwaukee homicide investigation. Brookfield police surrounded the car with weapons drawn in a felony stop. The alert was wrong. The alert was outdated, and authorities had forgotten to remove it. The sources describe the danger as officers treating automated alerts as probable cause rather than investigative leads. Flock Safety told FOX6 it welcomed a conversation about police technology but did not address specific error rates or verification protocols. The Institute for Justice has documented at least 26 cases since 2018 of innocent motorists detained at gunpoint or jailed because of ALPR errors. The sources do not state how the error was identified or what followed for the people stopped.","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: many third parties, a stated count of two or more affected parties. Sources state two people were held at gunpoint.","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.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/wrong-person-wrong-car-innocent-165054399.html","publisher":"Yahoo","date":"2026-08-09","type":"press","title":"Wrong Person, Wrong Car: Innocent Driver Held at Gunpoint Over a Flock Camera Error - Yahoo","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report","independence":"derivative"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","impact.severity":"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":{"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Authorities forgot to remove it."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Police shut down I-94, boxed in a silver SUV, and held two people at gun point after Flock cameras flagged the car as \"connected to a homicide.\""}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Police shut down I-94, boxed in a silver SUV, and held two people at gun point after Flock cameras flagged the car as \"connected to a homicide.\""}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The reason? A Flock Safety automated license plate reader (an ALPR camera system that scans plates and cross-checks them against crime databases) had flagged the vehicle in connection with an active Milwaukee homicide investigation, according to FOX6 News Milwaukee."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The alert was wrong."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The alert was outdated."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Authorities forgot to remove it."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The danger isn't just bad OCR — it's officers treating automated alerts as probable cause rather than investigative leads."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Flock Safety told FOX6 it \"welcome[s] that conversation\" about police technology — stopping short of addressing specific error rates or verification protocols."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The Institute for Justice documented at least 26 cases since 2018 of innocent motorists detained at gunpoint or jailed because of ALPR errors, with most occurring since 2022."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources describe an automated license plate reader, not an AI agent, so agent_involved is set to false by judgement and no failure class is given. The sources do not state the incident date, the disclosure date, how the error was detected or caught, the country (the US is implied by Milwaukee, Brookfield and Interstate 94 but not stated, so context.country is left out), the deployment context, or any harm class. The severity tier of major rests on the stated count of two people held at gunpoint, taken from a post quoting press reporting. The Brennan Center recommendations and the Flock Safety response are not recorded as remediations because no party reported a change it made. The control I7 outcome 'missing' is a judgement drawn from officers treating alerts as probable cause without verification. Stale-data and verification gaps have no matching control id in the closed list, so they are not mapped. 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