20 Georgia Officers Caught in Flock Cases—How Many Weren’t? #policeaccountability #thinbluelies

Our Take

Credit to Thin Blue Lies for pulling together Atlanta News First's reporting on this: at least 20 Georgia officers pulled off duty or arrested in cases tied to Flock Safety systems in roughly a year. That's not a rounding error, and it's not one bad department. It's a pattern, and patterns in policing surveillance tech almost always point to a bigger iceberg of cases that never made the news.

This is the part of the ALPR debate that companies like Flock would rather you not dwell on: the cameras don't just watch the public, they create a tempting internal database that officers themselves can misuse — stalking exes, running plates for personal reasons, selling access, or worse. When the people with the keys to a mass surveillance network are the ones getting arrested, the 'trust us' pitch from vendors and police departments collapses fast. Twenty confirmed cases in one state, in one year, is a floor, not a ceiling. Every agency running Flock needs public audit logs, not just internal promises.

If your town has one of these systems, you deserve to know it's there and who's allowed to query it. Check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment in your community, our take-action page has concrete steps.