Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

Our Take

Credit to RickieBobbieNO26 for surfacing this one: six former Savannah Police Department employees reportedly fired and now under criminal investigation for misusing Flock Safety's camera network. This is precisely the scenario departments insist won't happen when they're selling city councils on these systems — that access will be tightly controlled, logged, and limited to legitimate investigations.

We don't know yet exactly what these officers did with the data, and we won't speculate beyond what's been reported. But the fact that it took six people getting caught and fired tells you something important: audit trails can catch misuse after the fact, but they do nothing to prevent an officer from running a plate to track an ex, a neighbor, or anyone else who catches their interest. Every one of the thousands of Flock cameras now deployed nationwide runs on the same honor-system logic — trust us, we'll review the logs later.

Savannah isn't an outlier, it's a preview. Any agency with access to this data is one bad actor away from the same headline. If there's a Flock camera near you, check our camera map to see what's watching your community, and visit our take-action page if you want to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment before your local department makes its own version of this news.