AI incident ·
Jackson Township Police in Stark County, Ohio Briefly Detained Driver After Flock Safety Alert Matched Vehicle to Stale Missing-Juvenile Hot-List Entry
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In brief
An AI system built by Surveillance technology developers, Flock Safety and 1 other and deployed by Law enforcement, Jackson Township Police Department (Stark County and 1 other allegedly harmed Road users, Motorists and 2 others.
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- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 1 report
What happened
In March 2023, Jackson Township police in Ohio briefly detained driver Michael Smith after a Flock Safety license-plate reader matched his vehicle to an NCIC hot-list entry from a missing-juvenile investigation that Cleveland police had closed two weeks earlier. Officers released Smith after confirming the juvenile had already been found. A federal court later held that Flock matched the plate to law-enforcement data but did not create the stale entry.
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Who was involved
- Alleged developer
- Surveillance technology developers Flock Safety Automated license plate reader (ALPR) developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Road users Motorists Michael Smith (Ohio driver) Drivers
AI systems implicated
Surveillance technologyLaw enforcement databasesFlock Safety automated license plate reader systemAutomated license plate readers (ALPR)
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Source record: incident #1694 on the AI Incident Database · all 1 report