Six Savannah Police Were Fired for Using Flock Cameras to Spy on Their Own Family and Friends

Our Take

According to a video from Who is Mike James, six Savannah, Georgia police employees were fired after they were caught running Flock Safety camera searches on family members and friends instead of actual criminal investigations. If the reporting holds up, it's a textbook case of what happens when you hand a department a searchable database of everyone's daily movements: some employees will use it to snoop on an ex, a neighbor, or a relative, because the system lets them and nobody's watching the watchers in real time.

Flock and police departments love to tell the public that audit logs and 'reasonable suspicion' policies keep this technology in check. Six firings in one city is a pretty blunt rebuttal. Audits only work after the fact, once someone already had their location history pulled for personal reasons, and we only ever hear about the cases that get caught. For every scandal that surfaces, there's no way to know how many quiet misuses never make the news.

This is exactly why we track where these cameras are going up in the first place and push for real guardrails before networks get built out, not after abuse happens. Check our camera map to see what's watching your town, and visit take action if you want to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment near you.