Description: From June to October 2023, Sedgwick, Kansas, Police Chief Lee Nygaard reportedly used Flock Safety license-plate readers 228 times to check the whereabouts of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, according to a Kansas certification order. The order said he also followed them in a police vehicle and ultimately admitted jealousy influenced his conduct. Nygaard resigned in October 2023 and later lost his police certification.
Editor Notes: (1) 06/24/2023 is used as the incident ID date, marking the earliest documented Flock search. (2) Searches of the boyfriend’s vehicle began 08/11/2023; the last documented searches occurred 10/05/2023 and 10/10/2023. (3) Nygaard resigned 10/20/2023; Kansas regulators revoked his law-enforcement certification on 08/12/2024. (4) The incident ID was created 09/23/2026.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Flock Safety , Automated license plate reader (ALPR) developers and Surveillance technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Lee Nygaard , Law enforcement , Police departments in the United States and Sedgwick Police Department (Kansas), which harmed Lee Nygaard's unnamed former girlfriend , Unnamed boyfriend of Lee Nygaard's former girlfriend and Privacy.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Flock Safety automated license plate reader system , Automated license plate readers (ALPR) and Surveillance technology
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1705
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-06-24
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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A Sedgwick, Kansas, police chief used Flock Safety license plate readers to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend’s vehicles 228 times over four-plus months and used his police vehicle to follow them out of town, according to a city…
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