SurveillanceHigh
Former Coffee County, Georgia, Deputy Allegedly Used Flock Safety License-Plate Reader System to Track Woman
- Occurred
- Apr 10, 2024
- Published
- May 8, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Coffee County, Georgia, prosecutors allege former sheriff's deputy Chris Ashley Rozar used the department's Flock Safety license-plate reader system and other law-enforcement databases for personal purposes, including tracking and surveilling a woman without her consent in April–May 2024. A 2026 grand-jury indictment charged him with stalking, computer invasion of privacy, misuse of captured license-plate data, and violation of oath.
Developers
- Surveillance technology developers
- Flock Safety
- Automated license plate reader (ALPR) developers
Deployers
- Stalkers
- Law enforcement
- Coffee County Sheriff's Office (Georgia)
- Chris Ashley Rozar
Harmed parties
- Women and girls
- Women
- Victims of stalking
- Unnamed woman allegedly tracked by Chris Ashley Rozar
- Privacy
- Individuals whose license plate data were accessed for non-law-enforcement purposes
- Individuals subjected to unauthorized surveillance
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Law enforcement misuse of license-plate reader system for personal stalking constitutes unauthorized surveillance and privacy violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8