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Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system
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Former Savannah Police Department officer Amber Harpe was fired after investigators found she gave her Flock license-plate reader system credentials to her husband, ICE agent Tyler Harpe. Department records show he lacked a Department of Homeland Security Flock account and used her account for hundreds of searches connected to ICE investigations. The Savannah Police Department concluded that sharing credentials gave an unauthorized person access to sensitive police software, obscured the actual user in audit records and violated departmental information-management policy. An audit found 983 searches involving 97 identifiable license plates across Georgia, New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina between January and July 2026. Forty-eight South Carolina plates accounted for 788 searches, and department documents said most registered vehicle owners identified in the audit were Hispanic. Tyler Harpe told investigators the searches targeted people with active arrest warrants who were already the subjects of ICE target packages, denied personal use and estimated he used the account for about four months. The investigation found no violation of Georgia’s automated-license-plate-reader law, but SPD leaders said state authority to share data for legitimate law-enforcement purposes did not permit credential sharing. Harpe’s termination took effect September 26 after an appeal was denied; she later withdrew a Civil Service Board appeal.