Conyers, Ga. crime-center supervisor misused Flock cameras to track domestic partner; arrested and charged

On July 22, 2026, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested and criminally charged Paige Forte, a 30-year-old supervisor in the Conyers Police Department's Real-Time Crime Center (RTCC), with misuse of a license-plate-reader system. The Conyers Police Department had asked the GBI on July 21 to conduct an independent criminal investigation after an internal audit of its Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader system flagged suspicious search activity tied to Forte. Investigators found she had accessed the system for non-law-enforcement purposes more than 30 times between April and July 2026, making multiple inquiries into the vehicle driven by her domestic partner to determine his location. Forte was booked into the Rockdale County Jail and placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the department's internal investigation.

Georgia law (O.C.G.A. § 35-1-22) restricts how long agencies may retain license-plate-reader data, bars its use for anything other than law-enforcement purposes, and makes unauthorized access a criminal offense — the statute Forte was charged under. Conyers Police Chief Scott Freeman said in a statement that "the integrity of our department depends on the public's confidence that we use technology responsibly and within the law," and that "no employee is above the law." The department said the case will be turned over to the Rockdale Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office for review and possible prosecution once the investigation is complete.

Forte's arrest is part of a wider pattern of Flock license-plate-reader misuse by Georgia law enforcement personnel that this archive has separately documented at agencies including the Richmond County Sheriff's Office, the Hall County Sheriff's Office, and departments in Fayetteville, Cherokee County, DeKalb County, and Greene County — several of which followed the same detection method, an AI-assisted audit tool Flock Safety introduced in April 2026 that flags searches falling outside a department's stated policy.