Deputy Used Cameras To Track Someone For Months
The short version: A Georgia deputy spent three months secretly tracking someone's car through Flock cameras for personal reasons, and only an audit caught her.
Our Take
YouTuber OhDangReally lays out a case that should worry anyone who's been told ALPR networks are just for solving crimes: a Greene County, Georgia deputy, Quin'sha Goss, allegedly ran unauthorized plate searches on the same vehicle for roughly 90 days straight — not tied to any case, just personal interest. She was only caught because someone happened to run an audit. Not because the system flagged her. Not because a supervisor was watching. Luck.
This is the part Flock Safety's marketing never leads with. These cameras log every car, every day, building a searchable movement history on anyone who drives through town, and that database is only as trustworthy as the person with login credentials. Georgia already has at least five documented officers caught misusing the network, per USA Today's reporting cited in the video — stalking exes, tracking people for reasons that have nothing to do with public safety. Audits catching abuse after the fact isn't oversight, it's damage control, and it only works when someone bothers to look.
Every one of these stories starts the same way: a network sold as a tool against car thieves and amber alerts, quietly repurposed into a surveillance system with no real guardrails on who gets watched or why. If you want to see how dense this coverage is getting near you, check our camera map, and if you'd rather do something about it than just read about it, our take-action page has steps for pushing back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of OhDangReally, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.