Deputy Used Cameras To Track Someone for 3 Months
The short version: A Georgia deputy spent three months secretly tracking someone's car through Flock cameras for personal reasons, caught only by a routine audit, exposing how easily this surveillance net gets abused.
Our Take
Credit to OhDangReally for digging into a story that confirms what we've been saying all along: a camera network built to "solve crime" is just as easily turned into a tool for stalking, harassment, or settling personal scores. Deputy Quin'sha Goss didn't need a warrant, a case number, or even a plausible excuse — she just had access to the system, and that was enough to track someone's movements for ninety straight days. The only reason this surfaced at all was a routine audit, not some built-in safeguard that stopped the abuse in real time.
That's the part that should worry you most. Flock Safety loves to tout its audit logs as proof the system is accountable, but an audit log only catches misuse after the fact — after months of someone's daily life has already been mapped, logged, and potentially weaponized. USA Today's count of at least five Georgia officers caught misusing this exact system isn't a string of bad apples, it's a pattern baked into a surveillance architecture that gives hundreds of agencies and untold individual officers low-friction access to everyone's comings and goings, with trust as the only real barrier.
If you want to know whether a camera like this is already logging your plate on your own street, check the map, and if you'd rather not wait for the next audit to catch the next Deputy Goss, see what you can do at take action.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of OhDangReally, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.