--- title: Bloomberg: British Columbia sued OpenAI in California,... description: British Columbia has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in California, alleging that flagged ChatGPT activity linked to an account should have been referred to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bloomberg-british-columbia-sued-openai-in-california-alleging-flagged-chatgpt-activity-should-have-nvml5i2yk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bloomberg: British Columbia sued OpenAI in California, alleging flagged ChatGPT activity should have reached police before Tumbler Ridge shooting. On Feb. 10 2026, the attack killed 8 victims, including 5 children and an educator, and wounded 27 others. OpenAI laters said its automated systems detected a ChatGPT account in June 2025, human reviewers examined it, and the company banned it for violating usage rules. But OpenAI did not refer it to police under its rules at the time. As the activity did not meet its then threshold for “credible and imminent” planning requiring a police referral. On Feb. 26, 2026, OpenAI explicitly told Canadian officials that it had since made its referral criteria more flexible and added mental-health and behavioural experts to difficult cases, and it wrote: “under our enhanced law enforcement referral protocol, we would refer the account banned in June 2025 to law enforcement if it were discovered today.” | daily.dev og:description: British Columbia has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in California, alleging that flagged ChatGPT activity linked to an account should have been referred to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bloomberg-british-columbia-sued-openai-in-california-alleging-flagged-chatgpt-activity-should-have-nvml5i2yk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NvML5I2YK.png og:image:alt: Bloomberg: British Columbia sued OpenAI in California, alleging flagged ChatGPT activity should have reached police before Tumbler Ridge shooting. On Feb. 10 2026, the attack killed 8 victims, including 5 children and an educator, and wounded 27 others. OpenAI laters said its automated systems detected a ChatGPT account in June 2025, human reviewers examined it, and the company banned it for violating usage rules. But OpenAI did not refer it to police under its rules at the time. As the activity did not meet its then threshold for “credible and imminent” planning requiring a police referral. On Feb. 26, 2026, OpenAI explicitly told Canadian officials that it had since made its referral criteria more flexible and added mental-health and behavioural experts to difficult cases, and it wrote: “under our enhanced law enforcement referral protocol, we would refer the account banned in June 2025 to law enforcement if it were discovered today.” og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Rohan Paul](https://daily.dev/sources/rohanpaul%5Fai) [Read on](https://api.daily.dev/r/NvML5I2YK) Yesterday • From x.com  Rohan Paul @rohanpaul\_ai Bloomberg: British Columbia sued OpenAI in California, alleging flagged ChatGPT activity should have reached police before Tumbler Ridge shooting. On Feb. 10 2026, the attack killed 8 victims, including 5 children and an educator, and wounded 27 others. OpenAI laters said its automated systems detected a ChatGPT account in June 2025, human reviewers examined it, and the company banned it for violating usage rules. But OpenAI did not refer it to police under its rules at the time. As the activity did not meet its then threshold for “credible and imminent” planning requiring a police referral. On Feb. 26, 2026, OpenAI explicitly told Canadian officials that it had since made its referral criteria more flexible and added mental-health and behavioural experts to difficult cases, and it wrote: “under our enhanced law enforcement referral protocol, we would refer the account banned in June 2025 to law enforcement if it were discovered today.”  1 Upvote Comment Bookmark Copy Share your thoughts Post Share this post [](https://daily.dev/sources/rohanpaul%5Fai) [Rohan Paul](https://daily.dev/sources/rohanpaul%5Fai "https://daily.dev/sources/rohanpaul_ai") 11 Followers • 59 Upvotes #### Would you recommend this post? 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