Yet another person connected to the police has been arrested and charged for using the controversial Flock camera system for the wrong reasons. A former 911 director in Georgia is accused of accessing the license plate readers over a thousand times in ways that are unconnected to law enforcement. This isn’t the first time that someone in law enforcement has misused Flock Safety cameras, and it doesn’t look like it will be the last.
911 director charged for unlawfully using Flock system
On August 12, 52-year-old Heidi Taylor was arrested on two misdemeanor counts of misuse of a license plate reader system by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), according to a report from 11 Alive. The former 911 director for the Dallas Police Department has been booked into the Paulding County Jail.
The GBI says that it began investigating Taylor on July 7. Allegations that she had improperly accessed the Flock camera system between 2024 and 2025 had led the Dallas Police Department to request an investigation into the matter.
GBI investigators discovered that Taylor had accessed the system up to 1,200 times for non-law enforcement purposes, with some searches allegedly involving her former spouse.
The agency says that the investigation is still active and ongoing and asks anyone with information to contact the GBI Tipline. Once the investigation is over, it will handed over to the Paulding Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for prosecution.
If this incident sounds familiar, that’s because other law enforcement personnel have been accused of improperly using the Flock camera system as well. That includes a 31-year-old Florida cop who allegedly used the system over 700 times to track his estranged wife, per People, and another three deputies in Georgia who were charged for accessing the system to track people they had personal relationships with, as noted by WGXA.
