SAVANNAH, Ga. (WJCL) - Records show a former police officer in Georgia shared her Flock camera login with her husband, who works as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
He used the account for nearly 1,000 license plate searches across six states, which mostly involved vehicles registered to Hispanic owners.
Former Savannah police officer Amber Harpe admitted she gave her husband access to the Savannah Police Department’s Flock surveillance system.
“Did you run these flocks?” an investigator asks Harpe in a recording obtained by WJCL.
“I didn’t,” she responded, later confirming it was her husband who did.
Harpe was fired in August, along with five other Savannah Police Department employees, after an internal investigation uncovered Flock misuse.
Four of those employees were later arrested and charged by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Harpe was not among them, and until now, her name had not been publicly identified as one of the employees fired.
Now WJCL has obtained internal records and interviews in which Harpe and her husband, identified in the interviews as Tyler Harpe, acknowledged that her account was used for ICE-related searches.
“Every name that I ever ran was an ICE target,” Tyler Harpe said in an interview.
An internal investigation found that between January and July, Amber Harpe’s account was used to conduct 983 searches involving 97 license plates.
The searches spanned six states, including Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina, with South Carolina accounting for 788 of those Flock searches.
Investigators found that most of the registered owners of the vehicles searched were Hispanic.
“I asked her if I could have her Flock login, and she asked what I was going to be using it for,” Tyler Harpe said. “And I told her that once we had already developed target packages for people that had arrest warrants, it would be easier while we’re out on the street to be able to locate them.”
Amber Harpe confirmed that her husband, an ICE agent, did not have access to Flock.
“They don’t have flock. That’s surprising. They don’t have access to Flock,” an investigator said.
“No one really wants to work with them, sir,” Amber Harpe responded.
Further records obtained by WJCL show Savannah police share their Flock data with more than 1,700 agencies, but ICE is not listed as one.
“I’m hoping that, you know, nothing too bad comes out on this as far as it just being a policy violation. But, I mean, the tool actually helped our agency, like, get people off the street,” Tyler Harpe said.
Amber Harpe initially appealed her termination, but later apparently withdrew her appeal.
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