Fresno Police Department has opened an investigation into an officer accused of abusing Flock Safety cameras and using another police database for reasons not connected to a criminal investigation.
The accusations appeared this week in a report from Fresno’s in-house police watchdog called the Office of Independent Review, which on Wednesday released its first report in 14 months. The position for the independent auditor had been vacant since August 2025.
The report offered little detail other than that Internal Affairs began an investigation Sept. 8 after the department accused an unnamed officer of abusing Flock data and misusing statewide data from the Department of Justice’s database called California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS)…