Michael Fultz, Florida’s Deputy of the Year, Used Flock to Track His Ex and Was Allowed to Resign
by Jerome London · Thought CatalogUpdated 4 hours ago, August 29, 2026
The complaint letter landed the same day he collected the award. When the sheriff’s office pulled the Flock logs, they found he’d tracked his ex’s car and logged the searches as “investigation.”
Police can search Flock, a nationwide network of license-plate cameras, straight from their phones. A growing number of officers are getting caught using it to stalk their exes. One in South Carolina was fired after an audit found she’d run an ex through the system 166 times.
Michael Fultz reached Flock off-duty from his agency-issued phone. He told investigators he wasn’t spying on his ex or acting out of revenge, but the log audit showed he’d tracked her anyway.
The 43-page investigation, first reported by News6 and detailed further by 404 Media, laid out far more. Fultz posed for a photo with his mustache shaved to resemble Hitler while giving a Nazi salute. He used racial slurs in texts, telling investigators the words “became normal” and blaming dark online humor and the card game Cards Against Humanity. His ex provided photos of him holding a firearm that appeared to be his agency-issued Walther to her head and in her mouth during sex, an encounter she said happened after his April 2025 on-duty shooting of a man who charged him with a knife.
He was pulled over at least four times for speeding and covering his license tag, once at 111 mph, and walked away each time after identifying himself as law enforcement. Ordered to keep his tag visible, he rode out of the sheriff’s office parking lot with no tag within 30 minutes, caught on video. He said the stunts were for likes on his motorcycle Instagram and TikTok.
The report called it “egregious misconduct” and said firing was warranted, but because Fultz had already left, the office let him resign instead.
What set his case apart: he told his ex he was watching her. Most people surveilled this way don’t find out until it’s gone on for months or years.
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