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Greene County, Ga. deputy misused Flock database to track a license plate for three months, fired and charged

On July 7, 2026, the Greene County (Georgia) Sheriff's Office arrested and fired Deputy Quin'sha Goss after an internal audit found she had used the agency's Flock automated-license-plate-reader system to track at least one license plate for approximately three months for reasons unrelated to any official law-enforcement purpose. Goss was charged with violation of oath of office and prohibited retention of automated-license-plate-reader data. The Sheriff's Office said the investigation remained active.

Part of: Police Using License-Plate Camera Networks to Stalk

Jurisdiction
Georgia
Location
Greene County, Georgia

Abuses documented

Actors

  • Quin'sha Goss (former Deputy, Greene County Sheriff's Office)

On July 7, 2026, the Greene County Sheriff's Office in Georgia arrested and fired Deputy Quin'sha Goss after an internal audit of the agency's Flock automated-license-plate-reader system found she had accessed it outside her official duties. Investigators determined Goss had conducted searches involving at least one license plate over approximately three months for personal reasons rather than any legitimate law-enforcement purpose. The audit that uncovered her conduct began on or around June 30, 2026.

Goss was charged with violation of oath of office and with violating Georgia's prohibition on law-enforcement retention of automated-license-plate-reader data. In a statement, the Sheriff's Office said it "is committed to maintaining the public's trust through accountability and transparency and any misuse of law enforcement resources or violation of the public's trust will be thoroughly investigated and addressed appropriately." The Sheriff's Office said the investigation remained active following her termination.

The case is part of a broader pattern of Flock/ALPR misuse documented across Georgia law-enforcement agencies in 2026, including cases in Richmond, Habersham, Cherokee, DeKalb, and Fayette counties, in which officers used department license-plate-reader access to track individuals for personal, non-law-enforcement reasons rather than any assigned case.

Why we recorded this

Access to a government license-plate surveillance network is authorized for law-enforcement purposes, not personal ones. Greene County Sheriff's Office Deputy Quin'sha Goss instead used the agency's Flock automated-license-plate-reader system to track at least one plate for three months outside any official duty, conduct an internal audit caught only after the fact. This archive records the event because it is another instance of the same recurring failure mode: a surveillance tool built for public safety, with an after-the-fact audit log as its only safeguard against personal misuse by the officers who hold the keys to it, joining a pattern now documented across more than a dozen Georgia law-enforcement agencies.

Sources

  1. Greene Co. deputy sheriff arrested for improper use of license plate reader — The Union-Recorder primary accessed September 3, 2026
  2. Greene County deputy arrested after audit shows she used Flock cameras for personal reasons, sheriff says — CBS News Atlanta primary accessed September 3, 2026
  3. Georgia deputy charged with using Flock camera to personally track license plates — WSB-TV investigative accessed September 3, 2026

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