3 Cops Fired for Flock Searches—But Their Names Are Hidden #policeaccountability #thinbluelies

Our Take

Credit to Thin Blue Lies for digging into this one, because it cuts right to the core problem with Flock Safety's pitch: "trust us, it's audited." If these firings are accurate, officers allegedly ran searches on their own plates or people they knew — the exact kind of self-interested lookup every Flock sales deck promises won't happen because of "audit logs" and "use policies." Apparently those safeguards only work after the fact, and even then, the public doesn't get to know who did it.

That's the part that should bother you most. Firing someone quietly, without naming them, isn't accountability — it's damage control. Departments get to say "see, the system works" while the officer who abused a government surveillance network to track plates for personal reasons walks away with a clean public record. If this is happening in one Georgia department, it's a safe bet it's happening in departments that haven't been caught, or haven't bothered to check their own logs at all.

This is exactly why we built the map — because if cities won't tell you who's misusing these cameras, you should at least know where they are. And if your town is considering a Flock contract, check our take-action page before the council vote, not after the first scandal.