Former Katy Police Department officer facing charges involving misuse of Flock cameras

All right, everybody is talking about flock cameras and how they can cause a lot of problems, maybe an invasion of privacy and a former Katie police officer is now facing felony charges for what he did involving these flock cameras are Rashi Vats is joining us and Rashi. These cameras, they're a way that police can track license plates and follow people. Yeah, it's a good thing. I mean, that's what it's used for. It's supposed to be a tool for police officers. I know I have some outside of my neighborhood and everyone's really, you know, they compliment it and it just reads license plates in case you don't know that are passed by vehicles. So you can just imagine it helps with any time that police trying to capture somebody trying to get some more information with an investigation. So here's the situation. We are having a string of law enforcement officers that it seems like from different places they are misusing this information. So here's the latest one. The police officer, his name, you see the video in the picture right there. His name is Sergio Guadalupe Rodriguez. And you know what he was using this for to stalk his ex wife. That's what police say. So now he's facing felony charges for stalking and also misuse of official information. And they say that he misused the database as well. And you know, many people are doing just that are the ones that have been accused. Law enforcement officials, I should say. So it was back in July that we reported on this. It was something that happened from a span of January 2022 to December of 2025. So like three years there was a Fort Bend County Sheriff's deputy suspended because there was a pattern of him using excessive plate look ups. So it was just to let you know in the severity of it 41 times and then another plate 148 times. Now, July 24th, Baytown police did a criminal investigation and they launched this local officer over alleged misuse. We're seeing a lot of that. These are just the ones that we've reported on. August 12th, Pasadena Police Department says that an officer resigned, surrendered his license allegations that he used the flock system to stalk fellow officers. And you're thinking, how are they able to do this? Well, they have a database and they're able to get access to it. So a big, big issue Caroline that they're talking about is the use of oversight and what people are doing. And we know the most recent three Harris County deputies, they were suspended from using flock safety system a day after the company actually announced that they were going to put some new safeguards to prevent something like this from happening. And then now we're reporting on Katie Police Department and how they were using it. So really, this is a big question about what is the oversight? How are they handling it? And Harris County Sheriff's Department says that they have these systems in place now. But it's a question about other police departments if they're going to catch onto this because really, there's so many positive and good things that come out of these flock cameras. It's just crazy to know that there's people in internally using, misusing them. Not all of them. They're just a few bad apples that are doing just that. And they're accused of misusing them for whatever reason. Stalking your ex girlfriend, your ex wife, looking at different license plates, concerning. And I think that that just points to the fact that there probably needs to be tighter rules when it comes to how law enforcement is using them. Because unfortunately, just like the general public, not all officers are good, right? And doing it for their, they are doing it to stalk their wives or exes. So crazy. They're pretty crazy. All right. Well, appreciate you, Rashi. Thank you.