SurveillanceHigh
Kechi, Kansas, Police Lieutenant Used Flock Safety License-Plate Reader System to Monitor Estranged Wife
- Occurred
- Oct 23, 2022
- Published
- Aug 2, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Kechi, Kansas police lieutenant Victor Heiar used Wichita police's Flock Safety license-plate reader system to search his estranged wife's plate and review her movements over the prior month. An arrest affidavit said Heiar acknowledged knowing the use was improper; his wife said she felt violated and unsafe. He later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor stalking and computer crime and received 18 months' probation.
Developers
- Surveillance technology developers
- Flock Safety
- Automated license plate reader (ALPR) developers
Deployers
- Wichita Police Department (Kansas)
- Victor Heiar
- Stalkers
- Law enforcement
- Kechi Police Department (Kansas)
Harmed parties
- Women and girls
- Women
- Victor Heiar's estranged wife
- Privacy
- Individuals whose license plate data were accessed for non-law-enforcement purposes
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Law enforcement officer misused license-plate reader surveillance system to stalk estranged wife, resulting in criminal charges.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8