When a single Highland Heights police dispatcher resigned, the department’s Flock Safety search volume did not dip. It collapsed.
The first full month after that departure recorded 130 Flock traffic searches, a decline of more than 95% compared with April, according to Yahoo News reporting. That figure reflects how thoroughly one person’s personal use had distorted a public surveillance system, according to the department’s own data.
What the Numbers Revealed
The scale of the misconduct only became clear once the searches stopped.
More than 20,000 searches were attributed to that one dispatcher over roughly a year, according to reporting by the News-Herald and cleveland.com. Five license plates were searched more than 1,000 times each between Oct. 24, 2024, and Nov. 22, 2025…