Massachusetts Detective Tracked A Woman Who Changed Her Identity

She moved. She changed her phone number. She changed her entire identity. It did not matter. The man who kept finding her was a Stow police detective — and the search tool he used was the town’s own license plate camera network.

Jason Rogers, a detective and acting sergeant with the Stow Police Department, used Flock Safety cameras and state law-enforcement databases to track a woman who had fled a relationship with him, according to the department’s own internal investigation. The findings cost him his system access within hours, his pay within weeks — and the town its entire camera network.

What investigators found

The department’s investigation found Rogers accessed CJIS — the national criminal justice records system — at least five times with no legitimate law-enforcement reason. Across 2024 and 2025, he ran the woman’s vehicle through police systems again and again, according to the findings. He also drove by her home.

The pattern only stopped when the woman herself forced it to. She filed a complaint on June 18. Within three hours, the department revoked Rogers’ access and opened an internal affairs case.

She had changed everything

That is the detail that separates this case from an ordinary dispute. The woman had not simply left — she had rebuilt herself to stay gone: new home, new number, new name. A detective with a database login and a camera network beat all of it.

She now holds a restraining order against Rogers. She told Boston 25 News: “I just don’t think somebody like that should be out there with a badge and a gun.”

The department’s answer

Stow moved quickly once the complaint landed. A criminal complaint against Rogers was filed July 17. On July 31, the town moved him to unpaid leave. Then the department went a step beyond discipline: it terminated its relationship with Flock Safety entirely and physically removed the town’s last license plate camera. The cameras are gone as a direct result of his conduct.

What happens next

An employment hearing set for August 26 could end Rogers’ career with the department. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office and the Massachusetts POST Commission — the state body that can strip an officer’s certification — have both been notified.

Every charge is an allegation right now. Rogers is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty — the same standard his badge was supposed to represent. This post will be updated as the court record and the hearing outcome develop.

This case is one thread of the wider Massachusetts Flock scandal, in which at least four officers across three departments were caught misusing the same camera network in a matter of weeks — that broader story is covered in the video above and in a separate post.

She did everything right — new address, new number, new name. When a badge and a database login can beat all three, how is anyone supposed to disappear?

UPDATE, Sept 4: Rogers resigned from the Stow Police Department hours before the August 26 hearing, per town officials — and the town has since terminated its Flock contract outright and removed its last camera.

Sources
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