Two Illinois Cops Treated Flock Cameras Like A Personal Search Engine — 23 Counts Between Them
Two DuPage County officers treated police license plate cameras like a personal search engine — and a grand jury has now handed up twenty-three criminal counts between them. Former Itasca officer Marisa Ciccola, 30, and former West Chicago officer Gerardo Solis, 39, were indicted Sept. 29 on official misconduct and computer tampering charges. Both turned themselves in Monday and were released on their own recognizance. They’re due in court Nov. 16.
Ciccola is the heavyweight case: thirteen felony counts of official misconduct and eight misdemeanor counts of computer tampering. Prosecutors say she made unauthorized searches of Illinois license plates through the Flock camera database and the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System — LEADS — between June 2025 and May 2026. Nearly a year of digging with no lawful reason.
Solis faces one count of each charge for a narrower window: an unauthorized Illinois plate search through Flock between Dec. 18, 2024 and Jan. 25, 2025 — five weeks of queries on one plate.
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin didn’t mince words: “It is extremely troubling when someone entrusted with upholding the law is accused of breaking it.” He was careful to add the charges aren’t a reflection of the honest officers in both departments — both departments were, in his words, extremely helpful and cooperative. West Chicago confirmed Solis was the officer quietly placed on administrative leave in early September.
The felony counts each carry up to five years. Neither booking photo exists — both surrendered and walked out the same day.
And here’s the part that turns two indictments into a pattern: this is now an Illinois epidemic. Holiday Hills police chief William Copp was charged in June — prosecutors say he made hundreds of searches to track women he’d dated. A Whiteside County sheriff’s sergeant is fighting termination over alleged Flock misuse. A Chicago-area grand jury, a state’s attorney, and two suburban departments all just learned the same lesson the rest of the country is catching up to: the camera network that watches every plate on every street corner is only as honest as the person typing the query.
The Flock series keeps growing: Goodson’s 717 searches, Katy’s 2,386, Zahir’s 2,048, Thompson’s 2,055, Gwynne’s 381, Stanton’s high-school hunt, and now two Illinois officers who prove it isn’t a Florida thing, a Virginia thing, or a Texas thing. It’s a whoever-has-the-keys thing.
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