Tech · AI license plate cameras · Archive6 Savannah Officers Fired for Misusing AI License Plate CamerasAired August 9, 2026 at 1:08 PM UTCWritten September 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:00Six, former Savannah Police Department0:02employees were just fired and are now0:04under criminal investigation for0:05allegedly misusing Flock AI-powered0:07license plate surveillance cameras. All0:09six [music] lost their jobs in the same0:11action and now face a criminal inquiry0:14focused on [music] how they allegedly0:15accessed and used the camera system. The0:17system at the center is a nationwide AI0:19license plate reader network on more0:21than 120,000 [music] cameras built to0:24log and make searchable every vehicle0:25movement it captures. Police promote it0:27as a tool to solve violent crime. That0:29investigative value claim includes0:31tracking the gunmen after a shooting at0:33Brown University that killed two people0:35and injured nine. Against that,0:37>> [music]0:37>> a North Carolina police officer was0:39arrested for allegedly using the same0:41Flock system to track her boyfriend's0:42ex-wife. In Minnesota, a man posted0:45videos of himself covering Flock cameras0:47with tape, a visible sign of pushback0:49[music] as privacy criticism over0:50ubiquitous location logging runs0:52directly against police claims of0:54investigative value. The stakes reach0:56any driver whose movements can be0:57captured and searched and any community1:00deciding whether a police department can1:01actually control [music] access to that1:03data. What the criminal investigation1:05finds, whether charges follow, and what1:07limits get placed on a network already1:09past 120,000 cameras all remain1:12unresolved.Explore with HeyDexThe shortThe short ↗