Another Georgia Cop fired for abusing the MASS SURVEILLANCE NETWORK
The short version: A Georgia officer was reportedly fired for misusing Flock ALPR data, underscoring that 'trust us' oversight keeps failing when the technology works exactly as designed.
Our Take
Alec Miller, a candidate for Georgia State Senate District 31, flags what's becoming a familiar pattern: an officer fired for abusing access to a license plate reader network. We don't have the underlying report in front of us, so we won't speculate on the specifics, but the broader point stands regardless of this one case. Every time a department says audits and policies will keep this data safe, another story like this surfaces showing the guardrails are thinner than promised.
This is the core problem with systems like Flock Safety's camera network: the technology logs where everyone drives, whether or not they're suspected of anything, and that firehose of information is only as trustworthy as the humans who can query it. Departments routinely tell the public that access is logged and restricted, yet firings for misuse keep happening in state after state. That's not an argument for better training, it's evidence the entire model invites abuse because the data exists in the first place.
Georgia residents who want to know how many of these cameras are watching their own streets can check our map, and anyone ready to push back on unchecked ALPR expansion should visit our take-action page for tools to raise this with local officials.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Alec Miller for Georgia State Senate 31, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.