A judge signed off on a protective order to keep him away from her.
He allegedly ran her license plate through police cameras 2,000 times anyway.
Now the man who did it just became the latest proof that Big Brother has a badge.
Deputy Used Flock License Plate Reader to Hunt His Ex Girlfriend For Months
Skylar Thompson wore a badge in Jackson County, Indiana.
Prosecutors say he used it to hunt down one woman for eight straight months.
Thompson allegedly ran more than 2,000 searches on his girlfriend's license plate using Flock Safety cameras.
He didn't need a warrant.
He didn't need probable cause.
He just needed a badge and a login.
Every one of those 2,000-plus searches needed an excuse in the system, so prosecutors say Thompson typed in "city planning" and "traffic analysis" as his reason, over and over.
He'd never worked either job a day in his life.
An internal audit caught him anyway.
Thompson resigned the same day his department confronted him.
He then drove straight to his girlfriend's house and admitted what he'd done, according to WKBN-TV.
He now faces a felony count of official misconduct and a misdemeanor fraud charge.
Cops Stalking Exes With Flock Cameras Keeps Happening Nationwide
Thompson is not the first cop caught weaponizing Flock cameras against a woman in his life.
A Kentucky officer named Asad Zahir was arrested in August after allegedly running 2,048 searches to track his ex-girlfriend, violating her protective order 241 separate times.
A Texas officer allegedly tracked his ex-wife with Flock cameras and then planted a physical tracking device on her car.
A Georgia deputy was fired and criminally charged for using the system to stalk a romantic partner.
An Arizona officer quietly resigned after getting caught tracking his own wife.
A Massachusetts officer was placed on leave after her ex-girlfriend sought a protective order against her.
None of these cases were discovered by oversight boards or privacy watchdogs.
They were caught almost entirely by an AI auditing tool Flock itself was forced to build after the abuse became too obvious to ignore.
Read that twice.
The company had to build software to catch its own police customers abusing the system.
DeSantis Bans Flock Cameras While Democrats Just Talk
Democrats love to lecture Americans about privacy when it's convenient for their politics.
Where are they now that cops are stalking women with government-funded cameras?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis didn't wait for a task force or a committee hearing.
He ordered every Flock camera ripped off Florida's state highways within 30 days.
"No one has given law enforcement more tools than we have, but they need to be targeted at criminals," DeSantis said, warning the data could just as easily be sold off to advertisers building a permanent dossier on your movements.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott froze state funding for the cameras days earlier.
Sen. Josh Hawley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, is now demanding Flock turn over records on exactly who has access to hundreds of millions of Americans' location data.
"That kind of permanent, warrantless tracking doesn't belong in a free society," Hawley wrote to Flock's CEO. "Privacy isn't optional, and mass surveillance isn't how we do things here."
Sen. Rand Paul put it even simpler: the Kentucky officer's 2,000 searches involved "no warrant, no probable cause."
Rep. Greg Steube pointed to a Sarasota officer in his own district who used the same system to spy on a single license plate 300 times.
"We're not the CCP, we're not '1984' and an Orwellian society, and Americans have rights," Steube said.
Here's What Nobody in Washington Wants to Say Out Loud
A camera doesn't care who's using it.
Flock's technology isn't the villain here — a cop using it to stalk a woman he claims to love is.
But that's exactly the danger with handing government the tools to track every plate, every driver, every trip to church or the pharmacy, without a judge ever signing off first.
Thompson had a badge, a login, and zero oversight for eight months straight.
That's not a technology failure.
That's what happens when Washington lets a surveillance network get built faster than the guardrails meant to control it.
DeSantis figured that out and acted in days.
Congress has been sitting on this since at least last November, when Sen. Ron Wyden first flagged that the same system had no basic password protections.
Talk is cheap.
Ripping the cameras down is not.
Florida just did it. Texas just did it.
The question now is which state follows next, and how many more women get stalked before it does.
Sources:
- Louis Casiano, "Ex-Indiana deputy charged with felony for allegedly using Flock cameras to stalk girlfriend," Fox News, September 1, 2026.
- Mark Morales, "Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock camera system over 2,000 times, authorities say," CNN, August 26, 2026.
- "Gov. DeSantis bans Flock cameras from state highways," WCTV, August 31, 2026.
- "Hawley rips Flock's sprawling surveillance web as Texas cities cut cameras over privacy and data fears," Fox News, August 2026.
- "'Not 1984': Flock cameras watching millions of Americans spark bipartisan revolt," Fox News, August 25, 2026.
- "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott moves to cut state funding for AI-powered Flock cameras amid privacy concerns," Fox News, August 29, 2026.
