Coweta Sheriff employees resign over Flock camera misuse

The Coweta County Sheriff's Office joins a growing list of law enforcement agents talking or taking action rather against employees accused of misusing flock cameras. As Fox Live's Doug Evans reports tonight, three employees of the Sheriff's Office resigned after an internal audit of the entire department. The Coweta County Sheriff's Office says during a self-initiated internal audit of its use of flock cameras, several Sheriff's Office and were told the department heads met with these three employees about their use of the flock cameras. Now during those meetings, the Sheriff's Office says all three employees chose to resign from the Sheriff's Office and they say that that was before the department had completed its audit and any internal investigation. The Sheriff's Office says its employees are entrusted with access to sensitive law enforcement technology and information. It said they expect those employees to be lawful and ethical and they take seriously the trust the community places in them to safeguard the access of that kind of technology. In addition, the Sheriff's Office says it's going to be providing additional training to employees who have access to flock cameras. The Sheriff's Office is asking the GBI to conduct an internal investigation and typically that means that when that investigation is finished, the results will be turned over to the Coweta County District Attorney's Office. A bit of history, the flock license plate reader was invented in Atlanta by a Georgia tech grad who had their car stolen. It's one of the reasons why Georgia has one of the largest networks of plot cameras in the nation used by law enforcement across the state. In Coweta County, Doug Evans, Fox 5 News. Now again, those three employees are far from alone as we've reported more than a dozen other law enforcement officers across Georgia have been arrested for doing the very same thing. The most recent case in Habersham County where a deputy was arrested for allegedly misusing the tech. There have been similar arrests in Conyers, DeKalb County, Cherokee County and Albany. A pushback against the flock system has led to dozens of communities nationwide canceling contracts with the company.