Savannah Police fire 6 employees over Flock camera misuse
The short version: Savannah PD fired six employees, four of them officers, for misusing Flock ALPR data — proof that 'trust us' oversight promises keep failing.
Our Take
Six firings and a criminal investigation in Savannah are exactly the kind of story Flock Safety doesn't put in its sales pitch. Every time a department rolls out these cameras, the promise is the same: strict audit logs, limited access, only for serious crimes. Then six people, four wearing badges, get caught abusing that access anyway. WHAS11 deserves credit for digging into a story most local outlets would let die after a single press release.
This isn't a one-off glitch, it's the predictable outcome of handing a massive, networked license-plate database to thousands of officers across thousands of agencies with minimal independent oversight. Audit trails only matter if someone actually reviews them before the damage is done, not after a scandal forces a department's hand. Savannah's chief can call this accountability; we'd call it the system working exactly as badly as critics warned it would — after the fact, not before.
If your town has one of these cameras bolted to a pole, you deserve to know who's watching your plate and why. Check our camera map to see what's near you, and head to our take-action page if you want to push your local council for real transparency before your department makes the evening news for the same reason Savannah just did.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WHAS11, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.