Justin Craig
Introduction
Justin Craig is a police officer in Georgetown, Indiana, a Floyd County town of about 3,855 residents, who was arrested at his home on October 22, 2026, on charges that he spent months secretly searching the department’s Flock license-plate camera system without any lawful purpose — then disguised the searches to look like legitimate casework. Indiana State Police said Craig was taken into custody without incident, with the agency’s SWAT team assisting, and charged in Floyd Superior Court 1 with one count of official misconduct, a low-level felony, and two counts of fraud, filed as misdemeanors. He paid a $2,000 bond, with his next hearing set for December 17 .
Background Information
Craig was an 11-year policing veteran of southern Indiana, according to the accounts of his career in the coverage: before joining the Georgetown Police Department he had served as town marshal with the Greenville Police Department and had also worked with the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office. Georgetown sits roughly a 20-minute drive west of downtown Louisville, and its small department operated Flock Safety automated license-plate readers — the camera network that has become both a policing staple and a mounting privacy controversy across Indiana, where an estimated 3,604 of the cameras are in use in at least 84 of the state’s 92 counties .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Charged, not convicted. Craig faces fraud and official misconduct charges that have not been tested in court, and his attorney says he will file a motion to dismiss. He is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
The case began when Georgetown Police Chief Travis Speece learned of irregular search activity in the department’s Flock system, prompting an internal review. Indiana State Police Detective Clay Boley then reviewed the Flock system logs and, per the ISP account, determined that Craig had conducted numerous searches in 2026 using justifications including traffic violations, drug offenses, assault, and vehicle theft — but with no related investigations to back any of them up. The searches were conducted during Craig’s scheduled duty hours, and investigators said he mislabeled searches to make them appear justified .
Boley sought an arrest warrant after completing his review, and the warrant was served on Thursday, October 22. Indiana State Police said Craig accessed Flock information “in a manner inconsistent with department policy and without lawful purpose,” and WDRB reported the charges as two counts of fraud and one count of official misconduct .
Public Reaction and Consequences
Craig’s attorney, Matthew Lemme, pushed back publicly and in a statement to WDRB: “Flock sells this same technology to cities, homeowners associations, and shopping malls. When public criticism of it came, the response was to put it on the shoulders of individual police officers. The conduct alleged does not violate any law or department policy. If the public or police agencies believe it should, the answer is to write that law or policy… Charging officers before it has even started is not.” Lemme said Craig will file a motion to dismiss the charges .
The immediate consequences: a felony charge, two misdemeanors, a $2,000 cash bond, a December 17 hearing, and — though the state police statement did not address it — a pending question about his status with a department whose chief initiated the review. Georgetown has not publicly said whether Craig remains employed or on leave .
Current Status
As of the October 22, 2026 arrest, Craig had been charged with one count of official misconduct and two counts of fraud in Floyd Superior Court 1, had posted a $2,000 bond, and was scheduled to return to court on December 17. His attorney’s promised motion to dismiss had not yet been ruled on, and the investigation remains ongoing according to Indiana State Police. No plea had been reported in the sources consulted .
Impact on Their Career/Life
Craig’s arrest lands in the middle of a statewide reckoning over automated license-plate readers. The coverage placed his case alongside a growing roster of Indiana Flock-misuse cases — an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officer suspended and recommended for termination for tracking plates for personal reasons, and a Jackson County deputy accused of searching for his then-girlfriend’s car more than 2,000 times before resigning and facing misconduct and fraud charges. Bloomington’s city council voted unanimously to ban city agencies from using or accessing the technology, and a pending bill would require regular audits of plate-reader searches. For Craig personally, the charges and his attorney’s own framing leave him as the test case for a question the Indiana courts have not answered: whether clicking through a plate-reader database without a case is a crime, a policy violation, or — as his lawyer argues — conduct the legislature never bothered to prohibit .