Georgia Deputy FIRED And ARRESTED After Using Police License Plate Cameras To STALK His Ex Wife!

Our Take

Credit to the channel ClassE for surfacing this one: a Georgia sheriff's deputy reportedly got fired and arrested for allegedly misusing law enforcement license plate reader access to track his ex-wife. We don't have the full case file, so we're not going to speculate beyond what's been reported — but the shape of this story is exactly the shape we warn about every time a new Flock Safety camera network gets approved with a wave of a hand and a promise that 'only authorized officers' can query the system.

That promise is doing a lot of work it can't actually back up. ALPR systems log where a person's car was and when, repeatedly, for free, and hand that power to anyone with a badge and a login. Most of the time nobody checks whether a query was tied to an actual case number. The audit trail exists on paper; whether anyone reads it is another matter. When the person misusing it is already motivated — an ex-husband, a jealous partner, a cop with a grudge — the technology doesn't care. It just serves up the data.

This isn't an isolated glitch, it's a structural feature of networks built without independent oversight. If your town is debating a Flock contract, this is the case to bring to the city council meeting. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your streets, and hit our take-action page for tools to push back on unchecked ALPR access before it's your plate someone's stalking.