PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. – A former Dallas Police Department 911 director was arrested and accused of misusing the Flock license plate reader system, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The GBI stated that it arrested and charged Heidi Taylor, 52, on Wednesday with two misdemeanor counts of misuse of the license plate reader system.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taylor is accused of accessing the system between 2024 and 2025 for non-law enforcement purposes.<\/p>\n
Authorities said that she was serving as the Dallas Police Department 911 director during the time she accessed the system.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Dallas Police Department requested the GBI to investigate the allegations on July 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was booked into the Paulding County Jail on Wednesday<\/p>\n
Dig deeper:<\/p>\n
A recent string of law enforcement officers have been accused of misusing the automated database.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This month, three Coweta County sheriff’s employees resigned amid a Flock camera review.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last month, a former Habersham County deputy was fired and arrested after an internal audit revealed he misused the Flock camera system to track an individual with whom he had a personal relationship.<\/p>\n
The Fayetteville Police Department terminated three of its officers after unauthorized searches in the system.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The recent arrests include five police officers in Albany, who were also charged, a deputy in Greene County who was also fired and charged, and a Cherokee County lieutenant and sargent charged for violating their oath in relation to Flock camera misuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following the arrests, there has been nationwide public pushback and physical tampering targeting Flock safety cameras.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Henry and Barrow counties have seen cases of damaged Flock cameras. In Albany, two cameras were damaged by fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just this week, the Atlanta Police Department has announced it will be conducting an audit to determine whether any employees improperly accessed or misused the Flock license plate reader system.<\/p>\n
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What we don’t know:<\/p>\n
The GBI did not release the specific reason behind Taylor’s searches.<\/p>\n
It’s unclear how many times she improperly accessed the database between 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n
Authorities did not say how the Dallas Police Department initially uncovered the alleged misuse before handing the investigation over to the GBI.<\/p>\n
It’s unclear if Taylor has posted bond or remains in custody at the Paulding County Jail.<\/p>\n
The investigation is active and ongoing.<\/p>\n
What you can do:<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is encouraged to call the GBI Tipline at 800-597-TIPS<\/a> (8477) or online here<\/a>. \u00a0 Paulding County<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. – A former Dallas Police Department 911 director was arrested and accused of misusing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,104,103,2658,223,46720,393],"class_list":["post-405317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-ga","tag-news","tag-paulding-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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