Sharonville, Ohio, police Lt. Walter Cordes searched his department’s Flock license plate camera system 29 times between Dec. 19, 2024, and April 20, 2026, to find out where one person was, and none of it was police business, according to Hamilton County prosecutors. A department audit flagged the searches in June. On Oct. 13, a grand jury indicted him on a felony.
The same Tuesday, Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. announced that three city police officers had been relieved of duty after a department audit found misuse of the city’s plate readers. One of them ran 28 searches on a single plate over 10 days, KATV reported. Five days earlier, a Heard County, Ga., man filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Coweta County sheriff’s deputies searched his plate five times while his excessive-force suit against the sheriff was pending. That complaint names Flock Safety itself as a defendant…