The reasons typed into Flock Safety’s search box were “info” and “37.” The car being searched, according to a federal class-action complaint filed Oct. 8 in Newnan, Ga., was a 2024 Toyota Camry XSE belonging to Tyler Murkerson, a Heard County man who at the time was suing Coweta County Sheriff Lenn Wood and two of his deputies over a 2023 arrest.
Murkerson’s new lawsuit names the county, the sheriff, two other deputies, three unidentified officers and Flock Group Inc., the Atlanta company that sells the cameras. The claim against Flock reaches past Coweta County to every driver in Georgia, because it goes after a design choice: for most of the period in question, the only thing standing between an officer and a nationwide lookup of your car was a text field that accepted any word at all.
Five searches during a pending civil rights case
I read the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia as case No. 3:26-cv-00223-LMM. These are Murkerson’s allegations, and none of them has been tested in court…