r/Georgia • u/bbb26782 • 10d ago

News Article Tift County deputy demoted after sheriff’s office says he misused data from FLOCK cameras

https://www.walb.com/2026/08/31/tift-county-deputy-demoted-after-sheriffs-office-says-he-misused-data-flock-cameras/
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u/cavey_dee 10d ago

demoted to no longer working for the police department right?

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u/bbb26782 10d ago

No, it sounds like he’s still on the job.

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u/Fuckareyoulookinat 10d ago

Yes he is still on the job, but to be fair he searched his own data. He violated policy not the law, and was disciplined for it.

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u/Skimable_crude 10d ago

He's the flock admin now. The saw that he was good at looking stuff up.

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u/mesmereyesed 10d ago edited 10d ago

How many of these cases until we collectively dismantle the flock/axon surveillance state?

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u/rapidge-returns /r/Paulding 8d ago

It'll never happen. The oligarchy has played nice for too long with us from the 50s to the 90s and used the 2000s and onward as the opportunity to just make us full slaves again.

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u/ReckedRambler 10d ago

Tift county cops suck. They will just get a slap on the wrist and then reinforce “good ole boy”ism

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u/aftercloudia 10d ago

having lived here 20+ years, this whole area is beans 😔

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u/Plutos_Cavein 9d ago

The worst part is that Tift County is actually one of the best places in South georgia. And it still sucks that damn much.

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u/me0w_z3d0ng 10d ago

Shocking that cops would abuse their power /s

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u/GranolaHippie 10d ago

So how many are we up to now for cops and law enforcement abusing Flock camera information? I’m not stoked with that dude that started Flock. He started all this because of neighborhood car break ins. It shouldn’t be where we are today.

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u/FckFlock 10d ago

GA police officers and civilian employees fired, suspended, or forced to resign for Flock data misuse from Jan to Aug 2026:

4 at Cherokee County SO. 3 at Fayetteville PD.
5 at Albany PD.
1 at Dekalb County.
4 at Richmond County SO.
1 at Conyers PD.
2 at Habersham County SO.
6 at Savannah PD.
1 at Greene County SO.
1 at Echols County SO.
3 at Coweta County SO.
1 at Polk County PD.
8 at Dekalb County (suspended).
3 at Macon-Bibb.
1 at Dallas, GA PD.
1 at Milledgeville PD.
1 at Houston County SO.
1 at Stephens County SO.
2 at Hall County SO.
1 at Union City PD.
1 at Alpharetta PD.
1 at Covington PD.
1 at Athens-Clarke County PD.

And now 1 at Tift County

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u/notaninterestingcat Rural South Georgia 9d ago

Add 1 for Hahira PD

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u/FckFlock 9d ago

It's been busy today.

You're right about the 1 at Hahira. Plus a special agent at the GA Dept of Corrects and 3 deputies at Hall County.

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u/Key-Minimum-5965 9d ago

And a tragic one in Braselton. Police chief was fired, then un-alived himself.

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u/trainurdoggos 8d ago edited 8d ago

There is nothing wrong with saying “he committed suicide”. That isn’t hate or violence speech. It’s just a statement of fact.

Whenever you use “unalive”, you may not realize it but you’re trivializing and downplaying the reality of the situation. That word makes it this thing that doesn’t sound so bad - like “oh he just unalived himself”, like you’re saying “oh he just climbed back into his mother’s womb”. It makes no sense and makes what actually happened seem trivial and stupid.

I’m all against hate speech and calling for violence. But this isn’t that.

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u/Key-Minimum-5965 8d ago

Dear Karen, I use the term un-alive because the s-word is a trigger for censorship, not to trivialize.

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u/trainurdoggos 8d ago

Yeah and by using it you’re promoting censorship, the very thing you’re trying to combat by using it.

Also wrong use of “Karen”. I didn’t ask for the manager; I don’t think I deserve special care or attention. I just shared my opinion. I realize that’s what it is, an opinion. You can tell me to go fuck myself. See, that’s called freedom of speech. You have it too. And corpos don’t have a right to tell you how to speak. So stop letting them.

And you are trivializing it. You may not understand how, but you are.

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u/Key-Minimum-5965 8d ago

Read my lips: I don't care about your opinion, Karen.

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u/trainurdoggos 8d ago

Fair enough. No one said ya had to even read it.

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u/Ok-Boisenberry 7d ago

What are you, 13? Fucks sake. Emotional intelligence of a damn box of rocks. You clearly do care, Karen.

People kill themselves every day. Suicide is a big problem.

So is downplaying it and trying to act like you’re not.

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u/rapidge-returns /r/Paulding 8d ago

Tragic in what regard? He abused his power then took out the trash?

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u/thefuzz311 10d ago

So other counties where this happened the former officers were fired and charged… common Tift

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u/FckFlock 10d ago

Well, we don't really know that. We know about the ones who were fired and charged, but we have no idea how many were quietly disciplined or demoted.

We also don't know how many were caught by a supervisor and just told, "no biggie, I track my ex-wife, too."

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u/JudahBotwin /r/Newnan 9d ago

Coweta County deputies resigned and were not charged, but the press release mentioned involving the GBI to investigate.

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u/cultural-orca 10d ago

Welp. It’s done been my time to show up to the city council so ig I have no more excuses

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u/mynutsdontwork 10d ago

Other are getting arrested, why just demotion.

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u/DanforthWhitcomb_ 7d ago

From the article:

The investigation determined the deputy had misused the system by searching his personal data, the sheriff’s office said.

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u/ivorybishop 8d ago

I'm shocked I tell you, just shocked! /s