Published 5:07 pm Monday, August 31, 2026 MOULTRIE — Moultrie Police Chief Chad Castleberry stepped gingerly into the debate over Flock cameras with a presentation to Moultrie City Council last week. Flock Safety is an Atlanta-based company that manufactures cameras used by law enforcement to identify and locate suspect vehicles and for other legitimate purposes. The cameras have raised opposition because of a perceived ability to “track” people — which Castleberry said they can’t do — as well as recent misuse of the system by law enforcement officers in other jurisdictions. Flock produces three products, and they’re each named for birds. Moultrie police operate 16 Falcon roadside cameras, six Condor live video surveillance cameras, and approximately 76 Raven gunshot detectors, Castleberry said. Castleberry and an assistant showed the council how the Falcon cameras could be used to locate a suspect. First they showed how much information must be put in to be able to access the system: the user’s identity, a suspected offense, a case number and the reason for the search. That information is audited every 30 days, Castleberry said, because the system deletes information after that length of time. The audit — conducted by a person, not AI — can note discrepancies that a supervisor can then investigate. As an example of a legitimate use of the technology, Castleberry presented a hypothetical scenario: A pedestrian is robbed by the side of the road; the robber jumps into a car…
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