ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 11 -- The University of Georgia issued the following news release:
The University of Georgia Police Department (UGAPD) has suspended a civilian IT employee without pay for 20 business days and demoted him after his unauthorized use of the Flock Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) database was discovered during a periodic audit.
The Internal Affairs investigation that immediately followed determined that the employee's actions were not criminal in nature. It revealed that he accessed the ALPR system twice in 2025 to conduct inquiries into off-campus incidents that were also reported to other law enforcement agencies. His searches focused on two separate events in which he had a personal interest: one, a hit-and-run acc...