Police detective fired for using surveillance cameras to track his wife 7 times — she held a press conference explaining why it saved her life

Randy Dula had been named Milton Police Officer of the Year in 2025, and later received an Outstanding Officer of the Year honor from the Alpharetta Lions Club in 2026. By August, however, he was out of a job. In August 2026, he was terminated by the department for using Flock cameras for personal purposes. It looked like a clear-cut case of misconduct. The decorated officer used the official license plate readers to track his wife’s vehicle seven times in two years. But when his wife stepped up on the microphone, she flipped the narrative. According to her, Dula’s actions were far from the misuse of rogue surveillance; his wife said they were life-saving interventions during diabetic emergencies. Dula is appealing his termination, according to an October 21, 2026, report by 11Alive.

'It's all my fault.'

"I wholeheartedly feel like this was all my fault. Had he just let me die, he wouldn't be in this position," said Miriam, Dula’s wife. According to her account, her husband used the Flock camera to find her while she was going through a life-threatening diabetic emergency. She said other tracking devices such as Life360 and My iPhone had stopped working, and he turned to Flock to locate her. "He's not a criminal,” Miriam stressed. “He's not using Flock to stalk me or do all the negative things that are going on right now. He used it to save my life, which is what Flock is intended for.”

It was a life-saving action, not a 'personal use.'

Family attorney Mitch Skandalakis wrote in a news release that Miriam suffers from “severe diabetes,” which was made worse by medication shortages, per CNN. She became disoriented during the diabetic episode and was unable to operate her phone at that point. “This is about a husband who was concerned about his wife,” Skandalakis said, objecting to Dula’s termination, "to classify it as personal use is, in my opinion, incorrect under the circumstances.”

Meanwhile, Miriam is protesting by saying the department’s investigation was unfair and it left out a lot of key details. For instance, she added that Dula also kept tabs on her with a glucose monitor and a location app, but they failed in each of the seven instances. “Unfortunately, technology fails, and the only reason he resorted to even using Flockk was that all the measures we had put in place didn’t work,” she said.  

According to the Milton Police Department Flock Transparency Portal for Milton, Georgia, personal use of the camera is prohibited. In Dula’s case, the termination came after other members of law enforcement were caught using the Flock camera database for tracking their family members, lovers, or exes, per FOX 5 Atlanta. ReadRoundAbout estimates that there are 55 license plate cameras pinned inside Milton’s city limits, as of September 12, 2026. Additionally, the city operates 36 Flock readers: 33 fixed units and three mobile units, as of September 11, 2026.

 Right or wrong?

The story received mixed reactions from viewers. Many said it was illegal. For instance, @janetcampbell5601 commented, “She'll stand by her man till he offs her. It doesn't matter who he looked up to; it's illegal!!” @qatarworldcupwinnermessi said, “That doesn't make sense. If it was an emergency, why didn't he call for an ambulance? He isn't a medical professional.”

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