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Georgia Has Arrested At Least 20 Officials for Misusing the Flock Surveillance Database

Michael Soyfer, an attorney at the Institute for Justice, calls it “just the tip of the iceberg.”

Autumn Billings | 7.31.2026 4:34 PM

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Arrests in Georgia for the misuse of Flock Safety's surveillance system by public officers continued to rise this week, climbing to at least 20 statewide. 

On Monday, Andrae Wright was arrested and charged for allegedly accessing the license plate reader system over 60 times between June 15 and July 5 while employed as an investigator with the Ogeechee Circuit District Attorney's Office northwest of Savannah, reports WSB-TV Atlanta. And on Friday, the Habersham County Sheriff's Office in north Georgia announced that Deputy Christian Brewer had been fired and arrested for allegedly misusing license plate data. The misuse, according to NowGeorgia.com, involved "an individual with whom Brewer had a personal relationship at the time."

To avoid incidents like these, Flock Safety—the largest provider of automatic license plate readers (ALPR) in the country with over 120,000........

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