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2026-08-10 / HACKER NEWS
Six Georgia Police Employees Fired Over Flock Safety Camera Misuse — 128-Point HN Thread on ALPR Accountability
The Savannah Police Department terminated six employees on August 7 for misusing its Flock Safety automated license plate reader system, a story that drew 128 points and 117 comments on HN. The thread's value is the pattern it names: the technical control that catches abuse is the audit log, and it only produces consequences when someone actually reviews it — most ALPR deployments have no such review cadence. For builders shipping surveillance-adjacent or high-privilege internal tooling, this is the cheapest available argument for making access logging a first-class, reviewed artifact rather than a compliance checkbox.
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