Five Indianapolis officers charged following The Post's reporting on Flock misuse
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... Prosecutors in Marion County, Indiana, criminally charged five Indianapolis police officers Wednesday, accusing them of misusing their access to Flock license-plate-reader cameras. The action comes weeks after outreach from The Washington Post highlighted thousands of questionable Flock searches, leading the city to suspend one officer and conduct an audit of its system. ...

The charges in Indianapolis came nearly seven weeks after The Post asked the city about potentially suspicious activity from one of its officers. Using publicly available information, The Post found that Rogers, one of the officers charged Wednesday, appeared to have relied on Flock cameras to track vehicles used by his wife and two close personal acquaintances, searching the plates 3,759 times over a 10-month period -- an average of about 12 lookups per day.

At the time, Police Chief Tanya Terry said she suspended one officer while the department conducted an investigation into possible misuse and a systemwide audit of the city's 301-camera Flock system.

That audit led to the discovery of more widespread abuse, Mears said Wednesday. ...