Two Alpharetta High School seniors want the Flock Safety cameras at their school's entrances gone.

Henry Jones and Aditya Manchanda, both 17, published a Change.org petition on Sept. 1 calling for the removal of two Flock license plate reader cameras installed at Alpharetta High. The cameras cost between $2,500 and $3,000 each, according to the petition. It had collected 92 signatures as of Sept. 4, Hoodline reported.

"I think it's just a clear violation of our rights, and it just shows that they're more willing to claim that they have security at our schools than they are to respect the privacy of their students," Jones told WSB-TV.

The students planned to bring the petition to their principal within the following week, according to Hoodline.

The petition lands close to home. An Alpharetta police officer resigned Aug. 5 following an internal investigation into improper Flock searches, according to a WIRED investigation published by the North Atlanta Star. That same investigation found Alpharetta's Flock camera data is accessible to more than 2,000 police departments, colleges, airports and government agencies nationwide. Alpharetta, in turn, receives license plate data from more than 1,300 organizations.

The Fulton County School Board approved the district-wide Flock installation in 2022, paying roughly $626,300 through ESPLOST funds, according to Hoodline. Cameras were placed at all 104 Fulton County schools by January 2023. When the board approved the system, then-Superintendent Mike Looney said the cameras were meant to track people convicted of sex crimes, people barred from having guns and people banned from school grounds.

Fulton County Schools Police Chief Mark Sulborski told WANF-TV on Sept. 3 that the cameras heighten security and support police investigations, Patch reported. The district pointed to the arrest of Christopher Loris Ates, 39, who was charged in a fatal shooting outside Palmetto Elementary School in February. Police arrested Ates in Houston County after a high-speed chase, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. More than 550 students were evacuated during the incident.

The district said camera data would never be sold or shared with third parties, except with other law enforcement agencies.

Misuse cases extend well beyond Alpharetta. InvestigateTV catalogued more than 70 cases nationally of law enforcement officers investigated, disciplined or arrested for misusing Flock data as of Aug. 10. In Hall County, seven employees left the sheriff's office after an internal audit that concluded Sept. 4 flagged 85 of 758 Flock searches as anomalous, 11Alive reported.

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley issued a public apology on Aug. 14 and announced new safeguards, including cutting default data retention from 30 days to seven and requiring case codes for every search, according to KBTX.

State Sen. John Albers, R-Roswell, chairman of the Senate Public Safety Committee, announced Aug. 26 that he was joining a task force to explore legislation curbing Flock misuse. "People have concerns and public trust is paramount," Albers told WABE at the time.

Georgia law permits agencies to retain license plate reader data for up to 30 months under Georgia Code § 35-1-22, according to Hoodline. The same statute exempts that data from public disclosure under the Georgia Open Records Act.

No Fulton County Board of Education meeting is scheduled to take up the camera policy.