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Savannah officer fired for giving her ICE-agent husband her Flock plate-reader login

WJCL obtained the internal investigation records, with the audit numbers and both interviews.

A Savannah, Georgia, police officer was fired after giving her husband, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, her login to the department's Flock license plate reader system, according to documents obtained by WJCL. The records say he did not have his own Flock account through the Department of Homeland Security.

An internal audit flagged an unusually high number of searches on Amber Harpe's account between January and July 2026: 983 search entries involving 97 identifiable plates from six states, most from South Carolina. Department documents noted that most registered owners identified in the audit were Hispanic. Harpe told investigators her husband did most of the searches and that she understood she was not allowed to share access.

Her husband, identified in interview audio as ICE agent Tyler Harpe, told investigators he used the account for about four months to locate people who already had active arrest warrants, and denied any personal use. The department concluded she had compromised safeguards meant to track who uses law-enforcement data.

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Democrat

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.): Speaking on Oct. 5, 2026, Wyden said he began investigating Flock after learning "officers were making abortions and immigration-related searches including in Oregon," adding: "Flock executives claim their company wasn't sharing data with DHS or ICE, when in fact it intentionally gave information to those agencies."

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Libertarian

Autumn Billings, Reason: In a July 24, 2026 Reason piece on the string of Georgia officers arrested for misusing Flock data, Billings writes that the trend highlights "the need for stricter oversight of mass surveillance technologies," and that requiring a warrant (probable cause) before searching plate-reader databases "would essentially weed out bad actors."

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Republican

Rep. Pat Harrigan (R-N.C.): Harrigan introduced a bill (reported Oct. 17, 2026) that would require warrants for most plate-reader searches, delete records within 24 hours and bar vendors from selling or sharing location data. He told Fox News Digital the systems "track everything that you do, where you work, where your kids go to school, where you even go to church," calling it "an extraordinary amount of information" the government holds about people who have never committed a crime.

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