Former Coffee County, Ga. deputy Chris Ashley Rozar indicted on 8 counts for Flock, GCIC database misuse and stalking

On May 5, 2026, a Coffee County, Georgia grand jury indicted former sheriff's deputy Chris Ashley Rozar, 49, on eight counts after a two-year investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) found he misused law-enforcement databases and camera systems for personal reasons. Rozar faces four counts of violation of oath by a public officer, two counts of computer invasion of privacy, one count of prohibited use of captured license-plate data, and one count of stalking. The GBI's investigation, requested in 2024 by then-Sheriff Doyle Wooten after a woman came forward with stalking allegations, found that Rozar improperly accessed the sheriff's office's Flock Safety camera system, its automated license-plate tag-reader system, and the state's GCIC criminal-history database for reasons unrelated to his law-enforcement duties. The indictment alleges several of the incidents occurred between April 10 and May 1, 2024, and one count specifically alleges Rozar obtained captured license-plate data to follow, track, and surveil a woman across multiple locations in Coffee County without her consent.

Rozar was terminated from the sheriff's office when the GBI investigation began. He turned himself in and was booked into the Coffee County Jail on May 5, the day of the indictment, then released on bond; he was scheduled to be arraigned in Coffee County Superior Court on May 27, 2026. The woman who says Rozar tracked her later spoke publicly, on condition of anonymity, saying she hoped coming forward would encourage other women to report abuse.

The case is part of a broader pattern this archive tracks of law-enforcement officers using standing access to Flock and other government databases for personal rather than official purposes -- misuse typically caught only after a complaint or outside referral, not by any safeguard built into the systems themselves.