Milledgeville, Ga. police major misused Flock license-plate cameras for personal purposes; fired and charged

On June 20, 2026, Milledgeville, Georgia Police Department Major Brandon Sellers, commander of the department's Criminal Investigations Division, used his access to the department's Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader system for purposes unrelated to his law-enforcement duties, according to the Baldwin County arrest and booking record, which states both resulting charges "stem from June 20." What data Sellers accessed, or whose, was not disclosed in the records released.

The misuse surfaced roughly seven weeks later, when Police Chief Dray Swicord notified Maj. Linc Boyer on August 10, 2026 of possible misuse of the Flock system by a department employee. Boyer, assisted by Lt. Phillip Vinson, reviewed the Flock account assigned to Sellers and found he had "been using his access privileges as a sworn law enforcement officer to access the FLOCK Safety System for non-work-related purposes," per Boyer's incident report. Boyer then obtained warrants charging Sellers with felony violation of oath by a public officer and misdemeanor misuse of captured license-plate data.

Sellers, who also commanded the department's Specialized Response Team, was terminated and turned himself in at the Baldwin County Law Enforcement Center on August 11, 2026. He was released the same evening on a $10,000 cash bond, and the case was forwarded to the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office for prosecution. "We will not tolerate the misuse of Flock technology in any manner," Swicord said in a statement, adding that access to the system is limited to legitimate law-enforcement purposes and governed by department policy.

Sellers' case is one of a wave of Flock/ALPR-misuse arrests among Georgia law-enforcement personnel this archive has documented since mid-2026, including deputies in Habersham, Cherokee, Richmond, and Bibb counties. As in those cases, Flock's own logging made the misuse recoverable after the fact, but nothing in the system stopped the access at the time of the June 20 query.