A 13-year veteran of the Albany County Sheriff's Office faces two misdemeanor charges after investigators say she ran her ex-girlfriend's license plate through a surveillance camera system nearly 3,000 times over more than a year, all without a single legitimate case behind it. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple announced the arrest of senior investigator Laurie […] The post Albany sheriff's investigator charged with using Flock camera to stalk ex-girlfriend nearly 3,000 times appeared first on American Almanac .
A 13-year veteran of the Albany County Sheriff's Office faces two misdemeanor charges after investigators say she ran her ex-girlfriend's license plate through a surveillance camera system nearly 3,000 times over more than a year, all without a single legitimate case behind it. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple announced the arrest of senior investigator Laurie Moore, 47, at a Wednesday press conference, flanked by District Attorney Lee Kindlon. Moore is charged with second-degree falsifying business records and official misconduct. She has been suspended indefinitely, and a court date is set for September 24. ABC News reported that attorney information for Moore was not immediately available. The sheriff's office says Moore didn't…Open
‘Reinforce employee training and evaluate policies’
Prosecutors charged five former Georgia police officers over the alleged misuse of Flock Safety license plate reader camera system data. On June 25, the Albany Police Department asked that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) investigate several officers after an internal audit of its automatic plate reader camera system , according to a GBI press release . (RELATED: ROOKE: Surveillance State Has Arrived, And Masked Heroes Are Already Fighting Back) The audit allegedly found that the officers had repeatedly gone into the Flock system and used stored license plate information for purposes unrelated to official police duties. Go give @MaryRooke_ ’s analysis a readhttps://t.co/OwPPRWvPLI https://t.co/H3r8NSEORC — Ashley Brasfield…Open
New EU regulations require driver-monitoring cameras in all cars, raising serious privacy concerns about data handling and retention.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: As of July 7, 2026, all new cars sold in the European Union (EU) must be equipped with Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) systems, which include cameras aimed at drivers’ faces, supposedly to monitor distraction levels. If the system believes the driver has looked away from the road for more than 3.5 seconds at highway speed, or six seconds at lower speeds, it will harass them with an alert involving lights, sounds, or vibration. It turns itself on at speeds as low as 12 miles per hour, and cannot be turned off. DETAIL: The ADDW system uses infrared cameras to track drivers’ eye movements, issuing alerts if they look away from the road for too long. While supposedly intended to reduce accidents,…Open
The nation’s largest health records company, Epic Systems, sued firms including GuardDog Telehealth, alleging they improperly accessed personal medical records.
The fallout from DOGE staffers' efforts to access sensitive Social Security data continues as an agency watchdog disclosed a new investigation into "potential misuse" reported by a whistleblower.