Henry County Police search for man accused of vandalizing Flock cameras

Henry County Police search for man accused of vandalizing Flock cameras

A man is accused of vandalizing two Flock cameras in Henry County (Credit: Henry County Police Department)  HENRY COUNTY, Ga. – The Henry County Police Department is looking for a man accused of vandalizing two Flock cameras.  Police said on July 20 at around 11:15 p.m., a man vandalized two Flock cameras, one on Crumbley Road and the other in the area of Bud Kelly Park.  The suspect left the scene in a gray-colored Chevrolet Volt that had an unknown driver.  The man faces a charge of criminal damage to property.  The incident in Henry County comes after a growing wave of public pushback and physical tampering targeting Flock safety cameras.  In Barrow County, the sheriff's office recently confirmed three of its Flock cameras were damaged in a similar fashion. Physical vandalism has become a rising trend, driven in part by social media videos instructing people how to disable or tear down the street-level devices. The physical backlash comes as the technology faces scrutiny; just this month, a sweeping wave of criminal arrests and terminations hit law enforcement agencies across Georgia tied to the systemic misuse of the automated database. Police did not release the names and ages of both the suspect and the driver. It's unclear how the suspect damaged the cameras or what tools were used to disable them. While investigators know the suspect fled in a gray Chevrolet Volt, the license plate number or specific model year of the car has not been released. It remains unclear if…

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