Paige Forte (Credit: public domain)
Every new surveillance tool arrives wrapped in the same shiny little sales pitch…
It’ll fight crime, find missing children, catch dangerous suspects before they can hurt anyone else, blah, blah, blah. All you have to do is hand over more of your privacy, trust the ghouls behind the curtain, and don’t ask too many questions.
Then, right on schedule, somebody uses it to spy on their boyfriend.
JUST IN: Georgia police supervisor arrested for allegedly using Flock cameras to track her boyfriend’s vehicle more than 30 times
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That’s what police say happened in Conyers, Georgia. A female supervisor inside the department’s Real-Time Crime Center reportedly used the Flock Safety license plate reader system to stalk the car driven by her boyfriend.
(…) Officials say Forte uses the cameras to do some old-fashioned girlfriend stalking.
Paige was placed on leave, investigated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, arrested, and charged.
After auditing its Flock Safety Automated License Plate Reader system, the Conyers Police Department says it discovered one of its supervisors was misusing the technology.
The department said it launched an internal investigation and found that Paige Forte, a supervisor in the Real-Time Crime Center, allegedly accessed the system to track a vehicle driven by her domestic partner.
Forte was placed on administrative leave while the Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducted a criminal investigation. Conyers police said the GBI’s findings confirmed that Forte used the system for purposes unrelated to her law enforcement duties.
Forte has been arrested and faces charges related to the alleged misuse of the Flock Safety system.
“The integrity of our department depends on the public’s confidence that we use technology responsibly and within the law,” Chief Scott Freeman said in a statement. “When we discovered information suggesting our policies may have been violated, we acted immediately by launching an internal investigation and requesting an independent criminal investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. No employee is above the law, and we will continue to hold ourselves to the highest standards of accountability.”
This is a breathtaking abuse of access, authority, and public trust.
(…) And it turns out across Atlanta, dozens of law enforcement officers have been fired or punished over misusing Flock cameras. These officers are accused of doing exactly what the public feared would happen… using a massive police database to search for people in their personal lives.