A Savannah police officer lost her job in August 2026 after the department found she had given her Flock login to her husband, an ICE agent.
Flock is a company whose networked cameras read license plates and let police search where a given vehicle has been seen. Amber Harpe was fired following an internal investigation. Her husband, Tyler Harpe, ran 983 searches tied to 97 license plates while using her credentials, according to local broadcast reporting. The plates were overwhelmingly registered to Hispanic drivers. That works out to about 10 searches per plate.
The Savannah Police Department said it does not share its Flock data with ICE, and that sharing a login violated its security protocols. The Harpes defended their actions, saying they did not use the access for personal reasons.
The episode shows how a data-sharing policy can be sidestepped without any data being formally shared. A department can refuse a federal agency access, but if one officer's credentials pass to someone inside that agency, the refusal exists on paper only. Nothing had to be hacked. A borrowed password did the work.
Public reporting has not yet explained why those 97 plates were searched or whether any search fed an immigration case. Those gaps leave the larger question open. For departments that promise their plate data stays local, the practical test is whether they can show, account by account, who searched for what.