{"id":379528,"date":"2026-08-24T07:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379528\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T07:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:09:07","slug":"sarasota-cop-fired-arrested-for-misuse-of-flock-databases-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379528\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarasota Cop Fired, Arrested For Misuse Of Flock Databases: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The department also conducted an agency-wide audit beginning Aug. 7 to ensure compliance with the use of its technology and databases. The audit was completed Aug. 14 and found the agency was in compliance, the agency said. <\/p>\n<p>Waiters was terminated Wednesday based on probable cause developed during the criminal investigation, police said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take allegations of misconduct seriously,\u201d police Chief Rex Troche said in a statement. \u201cWhen an agency member\u2019s actions fall short of the standards and professionalism we expect, we will address it appropriately and without hesitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waiters had been with the Sarasota Police Department since 2023. He is being held at the Sarasota County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Detective Kim Laster with the Sarasota Police Department\u2019s Criminal Investigations Division at 941-263-6827.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The department also conducted an agency-wide audit beginning Aug. 7 to ensure compliance with the use of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-379528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}