Fired Savannah Officer Amber Harpe Gave Her Flock Login To Her ICE Agent Husband – 983 Searches, 6 States

A Savannah officer shared her Flock camera login. Her husband — an ICE agent — ran nearly a thousand plate searches with it.

Amber Harpe was a police officer in Savannah, Georgia until August, when the department fired her following an internal investigation into misuse of its Flock license-plate-reader system. Her name stayed out of the news for two months. It is public now, and the records behind it read like a case study in how a single shared password can turn a city surveillance network into a personal manhunt tool.

Between January and July, Harpe’s Flock account was used to run 983 searches on 97 license plates across six states — Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina. South Carolina alone accounted for 788 of them. Investigators found that most of the vehicles’ registered owners were Hispanic.

The person running those searches was not Harpe. It was her husband, Tyler Harpe, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. ICE has no Flock access of its own — Savannah’s system shares data with more than 1,700 agencies, and ICE is not one of them. So the access came from inside the family.

“Did you run these flocks?”

Internal recordings from the investigation capture the moment the account came into question. Asked directly whether she ran the searches, Harpe answered, “I didn’t” — then confirmed it was her husband who did.

Tyler Harpe, in his own recorded interview, was matter-of-fact about the arrangement. “I asked her if I could have her Flock login, and she asked what I was going to be using it for,” he said. “Once we had already developed target packages for people that had arrest warrants, it would be easier while we’re out on the street to be able to locate them.”

His account of the searches themselves: “Every name that I ever ran was an ICE target.”

He also knew what the arrangement looked like on paper. “I’m hoping that nothing too bad comes out on this as far as it just being a policy violation,” he said. “But I mean, the tool actually helped our agency, like, get people off the street.”

His wife’s assessment of why ICE lacks direct access to the network was blunter. When an investigator noted that no agency wants to share Flock with ICE, she agreed: “No one really wants to work with them, sir.”

Fired with five coworkers — but not charged like four of them

Harpe was one of six Savannah Police Department employees fired in August after the internal investigation uncovered Flock misuse. Four of the six were later arrested and charged by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Harpe was not among them. She initially appealed her termination, then withdrew the appeal. Until this week, her name had not been publicly connected to the terminations.

As of publication, no criminal charge against Amber Harpe or her husband has been announced. The 983 searches, the six states, and the target packages described on the recordings are all documented in the disciplinary file.

The pattern, again

This is the tenth entry in our running file on Flock misuse, and it carries the two details that keep recurring: an officer treating a surveillance network as personal infrastructure, and a spouse or associate inheriting police-grade search power through nothing more than a shared login. Badge-level access to 1,700 connected agencies — narrowed to one household.

Watch for updates: any GBI action, federal interest, or Savannah PD policy changes on credential sharing will be added here.