Georgia business owner sues Flock and sheriff’s office over camera use

The suit says months of plate searches were used outside any specific investigation, raising claims that the system helped enable retaliation.

Tyler Murkerson, a Georgia small-business owner, has sued Flock and the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office, saying their license-plate camera system was used to retaliate against him. The complaint says officers ran tracking searches for months without probable cause and outside any specific investigation, and it also argues that Flock left a weakness in place by allowing free-text entries instead of requiring case numbers or investigation identifiers. Murkerson’s dispute with the sheriff’s office dates back to a February 2023 arrest over an alleged seatbelt violation, a case that was later dropped. He also filed an excessive-force lawsuit in September 2024, and that matter was recently settled.