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Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

https://www.wtoc.com/2026/08/07/savannah-police-department-fires-6-employees-over-flock-safety-system-misuse/
46•chirau•2h ago

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angry_octet•2h ago
...andd they are now working for ICE HSI for higher pay.
smallerize•2h ago
"The names of the fired employees aren’t being released right now." Somehow even after being fired there is no accountability.
jiveturkey•1h ago
> weren’t authorized

this is easily solved with current technology, if they had an incentive to do so.

besides firing folks that get caught, flock themselves should be brought to court.

akerl_•33m ago
This feels like a weird comment on an article about how they monitored usage, identified misuse, and terminated the people involved.

There's surely plenty of entities that need better controls around usage of technology / records / etc, but this is an example of somebody having an incentive and then following through.

morkalork•10m ago
Ah but you see flock doesn't own the data so they're not responsible for misuse of it and other such legal deflections.
timoxley•1h ago
nobody saw this coming
tptacek•14m ago
Flock cameras appear to be one of the few things that can get police officers fired.
xnx•10m ago
Silver lining! The cameras are catching criminals.
Tostino•11m ago
My town's covered with them already, without much warning in the local news, at least none I saw. And they're about to add 50% more all over the county. Planning on going to the zoning meeting Tuesday to speak against them. Also had a handful of yard signs printed up and put them at major intersections around town warning about the expansion, pointing people to the zoning meeting.

Very much not okay with this surveillance state bullshit.

quacked•7m ago
I don't believe a legal solution is possible. We need a three-tiered response to Flock's surveillance state business strategy, depending on what level of meddling each citizen is comfortable with.

1. Protest via yard signs and awareness (what you're doing)

2. Impermanent vandalism. I like the idea of hanging copies of the fourth amendment over the lenses

3. Permanent vandalism. I think we need bounties on camera destruction and public legal funds to assist in defense, bail, etc.

The police as a class/caste are not interested in the fundamental principles that America was founded on. Individual officers may be interested in civil freedom and privacy but as an entity they only ever march in the direction of total surveillance and domination of the citizenry.

madhacker•4m ago
Flock is importing China's ubiquitous surveillance in America until every habitable space is captured

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