EATONTON, Ga. — A Georgia Department of Corrections special agent in charge has been charged with using the agency’s automated license plate reader system for a non-law enforcement purpose, authorities said.
Robert “Bobby” Michael Keim, 45, of Eatonton, was arrested Sept. 1 on a charge of misuse of a license plate reader system, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He was booked into the Putnam County Jail.
The Department of Corrections asked the GBI on Aug. 18 to investigate allegations involving Keim’s access to the agency’s Flock system. The GBI did not disclose what searches Keim is accused of conducting or how the information was allegedly used.
Keim’s arrest is the latest in a series of license plate reader misuse cases investigated in Georgia. Since July, the GBI has announced charges against at least 11 other current or former law enforcement agency employees accused of accessing Flock data for non-law enforcement purposes.
Five former Albany police officers were arrested in July after an internal audit found they had accessed retained license plate data multiple times. A Conyers police dispatcher supervisor was charged later that month after investigators said she accessed the system more than 30 times between April and July.
In August, the GBI also charged a former Polk County police officer accused of making unauthorized searches between 2024 and 2025. Four former Savannah Police Department employees — three officers and a community service specialist — were arrested later that month following another internal audit.
The investigation involving Keim remains active. Once it is complete, the GBI said the case will be forwarded to the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for prosecution.
