Flock misuse, former Kenosha County deputy charged

Our big story tonight on Fox six news at nine flock fallout continues and now former Kenosha County Sheriff's deputy facing felony charges after investigators say he used flock cameras to stalk a co-worker. And Braille Press Seattle joins us with details coming from this new complaint of Braille. That's right you guys tonight we have the former deputy's picture 44 year old Frank McGrath is charged with two counts of misconduct in public office. Now according to prosecutors McGrath was dating another deputy and turned to the top tier tracking technology for personal business. Investigators say a routine interval audit revealed that McGrath ran his fellow deputy's personal license plate through the county's flock plate reader system 16 to 17 times. Now in just four hours and while off duty falsely marking the searches as suspicious activity and it didn't stop there the documents reveal that McGrath repeatedly logged onto Polaris which is a live GPS portal used to track squad cars and body cameras. A total of 40 times to track her real-time location while she was on shift and we spoke with Kenosha County Board Supervisor Laura Pelsky who says she is not against the flocks but demands accountability. The work is not finished so I think there's more that we need to look into because again I want to make sure that everybody understands this is alleged misuse and charges and until everything goes to court all we can do is look at what was in place and what needs to be in place. And following the incident Kenosha County Sheriff's Office has implemented several new measures like personnel must formally document both the specific reason and associated case number whenever performing license license plate searches and all department staff must complete remedial flock academy training and the time frame for the retaining flock data has been significantly shortened from 30 days down to just seven to just seven days. Now McGrath's initial court appearance is scheduled in September. In the newsroom Avril Preciado, Fox 6 News. We've seen multiple cases like this in our area. All right Avril, thanks.