Mooresville, NC officer misused Flock license-plate cameras 31 times to track boyfriend's ex-wife

Mooresville, North Carolina police arrested and charged Officer Elizabeth Snowman on August 5, 2026, after an internal audit of the department's Flock automated license-plate-reader (ALPR) system found she had accessed it 31 times to track her boyfriend's ex-wife. Police Chief Ron Campurciani told reporters at a Wednesday news conference that Snowman had logged 29 of the 31 searches as routine "motor vehicle infractions" and two as burglary- or robbery-related, none of which reflected her actual reason for the searches; at least two of the accesses occurred while she was off duty. Snowman was taken into custody when she arrived for work, charged with accessing computers, and released on a $5,000 bond. [1, 2, 3]

The Flock system requires officers to document a reason for each vehicle search they run, a safeguard meant to confine access to legitimate investigative purposes; Campurciani said Snowman's stated reasons did not match what investigators determined she was actually doing. Going forward, he said, Mooresville officers will also have to attach a case number to every Flock search as an added check. [2, 3]

Campurciani said the department is reviewing roughly ten additional cases of potential officer misuse of the camera system, three of which he described as already looking problematic, and that more charges could follow. He called the misuse "frustrating and aggravating," saying officers who use the system "for personal gain... can't think past their nose about how this affects law enforcement." The arrest came one week after a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer, Seth Elliott, was placed on unpaid administrative leave over separate allegations of misusing the same Flock camera network. [1, 3, 4, 5]