A creepy South Carolina cop misused the department’s Flock camera system to run an ex-lover’s license plate over 160 times, according to documents.
Officer Ellie Anna Hammond, 24, was fired from the Mauldin Police Department on Aug. 3 over the obsessive behavior, KOCO 5 News reported.
Documents from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy show that Hammond searched the ex’s plate on 166 separate occasions between March and July.
She gave her superiors phony reasons for tracking the plates, according to documents.
Officials said that these bogus excuses for eyeing the ex’s car included warrant checks, traffic infractions and welfare checks.
Hammond, who was hired as part of the department’s Uniform Patrol division in June 2024, was let go after the misconduct was discovered, but was not criminally charged, officials said.
A spokesperson for the department said they would not comment on Hammond’s case any further as it was “a personnel matter.”
The Flock cameras that Hammond used to keep tabs on her ex have been highly controversial.
Many activists worried that they can be used to violate people’s privacy, pointing at instances where they have been misused by police.
Others have argued that the cameras are a valuable law-enforcement tool.
