Savannah Officer Fired for Sharing Flock Access With ICE Husband — SkimNews
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- Amber Harpe, a Savannah police officer, was fired in August after an SPD investigation found she shared her Flock login credentials with her husband Tyler Harpe, an ICE agent, violating the department's security protocols.
- SPD does not share its Flock data with ICE, making Tyler Harpe's use of the system an unauthorized workaround rather than a sanctioned interagency channel.
- While holding Amber's login, Tyler Harpe conducted 983 searches tied to 97 license plates that were overwhelmingly registered to Hispanic drivers, according to Savannah ABC affiliate WJCL.
- The Harpes defended the searches as strictly "law-enforcement purposes," denying any personal use of the Flock system.
- Interim Major Max Nowinsky originally recommended only an eight-hour suspension for Harpe, but Major Michelle Halford and Assistant Police Chief Robert Gavin overrode that and pushed for termination.
- Amber Harpe was fired alongside five other SPD employees after the internal investigation uncovered broader Flock misuse; four of those five were later arrested, though Harpe was not among those charged.
Why it matters: SPD explicitly does not share Flock data with ICE, so a shared spousal login functioned as a backdoor into a database the agency is not supposed to access — one that was used to run nearly 1,000 searches disproportionately hitting Hispanic-registered plates. The case also exposed a wider Flock-misuse problem inside SPD, with five additional employees fired and four arrested in the same internal probe.
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