# Police officers accused of misusing Flock cameras to track people
# WHAS11 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfjfz8Hu20E

This morning,
a now former North Carolina police officer is facing charges accused of
using her department's controversial license plate
cameras to track her boyfriend's ex-wife.
Investigators say Elizabeth Snowman accessed to
the department's flock camera system.
Dozens of times for personal use,
Flock cameras automatically scan every license plate that passes,
logging the vehicle,
the time,
and the location into a searchable database that police can use to track vehicles.
She accessed the computers.
The LPR cameras
to find information
and track.
Her boyfriend's ex-wife.
Newsweek reports officers in at least a dozen states have
faced allegations of misusing Flock license plate reader systems,
including 10 officers in Georgia in recent weeks.
Police say the camera technology has been a game changer for solving crimes,
but it all goes up in smoke
when you have cops like this
violating the system.
Flock Safety says it now has about 120,000 cameras
installed across the US Critics call it a massive.
Surveillance system
sparking protests over privacy concerns.
Cameras in Houston have been vandalized,
covered in spray paint.
In Winona,
Minnesota,
all 8 of the city's cameras were stolen.
Flock's CEO saying
the company is now under a coordinated attack,
but insists America can have both safety and privacy.
The American Civil Liberties Union says more than 50 communities nationwide
have terminated their Flock camera contracts in the last year.
Sophie Flay,
ABC News,
New York.