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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