Fort Bend County lieutenant ran one licence plate 148 times

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What this means for you

Nothing to act on unless you run a plate-reader network. What made this countable is that the searches were logged, per account, across four years. If your deployment does not keep per-officer query records with a retention period, this case is the argument for adding them.

Documents obtained by ABC13 show a lieutenant in the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, in Texas, ran the same licence plate through Flock's camera network 148 times, and a second plate 41 times, between January 2022 and December 2025. Flock cameras are fixed licence-plate readers that log vehicles passing a point and let officers search the log. ABC13 reports the lieutenant acknowledged the queries were improper. The records do not say what prompted the lookups, whether any related to an investigation, or what discipline followed. Datum's input is a single aggregator entry linking to that report.

Key facts

  • ·A Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office lieutenant ran one licence plate through Flock cameras 148 times. source
  • ·A second licence plate was queried 41 times. source
  • ·The queries span January 2022 to December 2025. source
  • ·The documents were obtained by ABC13, which reports the officer acknowledged improper use. source
  • ·The report is dated 16 September 2026. source

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