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Pennsylvania state trooper pleads guilty to creating AI pornography

Preliminary Why: 1 report: CBS News · subject to change · 1 independent report

Status: no action reported

Severity moderate
Reported 8 Apr 2026
Industry law enforcement

No source states: loss or records, developer and model, agent tool, could do, deployer.

Severity moderate: Test: data of others touched with a bounded scope stated. Fact: hundreds of photographs of women obtained through JNET.

Kamnik, who is currently suspended without pay, used secured law enforcement and commonwealth computer systems to create AI-generated pornographic images of numerous women, according to the attorney general's office. Prosecutors said Kamnik also used the state's Justice Network, known as JNET, to obtain hundreds of photographs of women, violating database policies. The investigation, which was conducted by state police, found that Kamnik secretly filmed and photographed numerous women while on duty. A lawsuit filed by a victim who alleges her image was used in AI-generated pornography claims Pennsylvania State Police were aware of prior incidents of Kamnik abusing his position as a state trooper but failed to properly discipline him. A Montgomery County judge is scheduled to sentence him July 8.

What happened

1 · What it was doingA Pennsylvania State Police corporal used secured law enforcement and commonwealth computer systems to create AI-generated pornographic images of numerous women.
2 · What went wrongProsecutors said he also used the state's JNET database to obtain hundreds of photographs of women, violating database policies.
3 · How it was caughtA state police investigation found that he secretly filmed and photographed numerous women while on duty.

What was done

No source states an action or fix.

Risks

Harmful content and jailbreaks
Primary84 incidents
Rising: 6 vs 3.8 a week

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Controls

Not yet read for controls. Controls that mitigate the primary risk:

Model

Safety training and refusal · Content safety classifiers · Abuse monitoring and account enforcement · Outside red-teaming

Application

Output filtering and redaction

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Evidence

No source states: what it reached or did, when it happened, when it was found, how many records were exposed, the direct loss, a count of the other parties affected, any court case, the cause, what was done.

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What happened, in order

  1. January 2025 A stolen .22-caliber gun was found during a search of Kamnik's vehicle.
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What happened

Earliest source we hold
2026-04-08
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
What set it off
misused by a person
C one secondary source states it
What went wrong
produced harmful content
C one secondary source states it
AI agent
no AI agent acted
C one secondary source states it

Impact

Severity
moderate
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
Kind of harm
privacy
C one secondary source states it
Why this severity
Test: data of others touched with a bounded scope stated. Fact: hundreds of photographs of women obtained through JNET.
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown

Context

Industry
law enforcement
C one secondary source states it

Notes on gaps

The sources describe a state trooper misusing government systems, not an autonomous AI agent. The article date 2026-04-08 is not used as a disclosure date. Sentencing year and plea date are not given beyond the weekday Wednesday.

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