Overview
- State and local investigations have produced at least 20 arrests or firings in Georgia for unauthorized queries of Flock Safety’s license‑plate database, with recent cases including Andrae Wright and Habersham County deputy Christian Brewer.
- Habersham County confirmed an internal audit found Brewer accessed the system for a personal relationship; he was fired, booked and charged with a felony violation of oath of office and two misdemeanor counts for misuse of plate data.
- Flock Safety says it introduced an Audit Assistance compliance tool in April and that its immutable logs have helped several agencies identify misuse that might otherwise have gone undetected.
- Privacy and accountability experts say audits only expose past abuse and do not prevent it, noting weak oversight of law enforcement ALPR searches and large search volumes such as the nearly 2.5 million searches reported in San Jose for six months of 2025.
- The revelations have prompted local contract reviews, public pushback and calls for tighter rules and clearer legal limits on warrantless plate searches as prosecutions and district attorney reviews continue.