MILTON, Ga. — A detective who was named Milton’s Police Officer of the Year in 2025 is now out of a job.
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His attorney says the officer was fired for using Flock cameras to check on his wife while she was having diabetic emergencies.
Randy Dula started working at the Milton Police Department in November 2023. State records show he was terminated on Aug. 7, but they don’t specify why.
His attorney told Channel 2’s Bryan Mims, Dula was fired for neglect of duty, abuse of position and use of departmental equipment.
Dula was named the 2025 Officer of the Year.
And in April of this year, the Alpharetta Lions Club named him the Outstanding Officer of the Year.
But his attorney, Mitch Skandalakis, says Dula was fired for using the city’s Flock cameras seven times during a two-year period to check on his wife during diabetic emergencies.
“I mean, this is not a guy searching for a girlfriend or trying to see if his wife is seeing somebody else. This is the real deal for these people. He’s a devoted husband,” Skandalakis said.
He says Dula and his wife agreed that she would call her husband when she left home and when she arrived at her destination.
When she failed to do that, Skandalakis says, the officer checked the Flock cameras.
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He says the couple tried the tracking app Life360, but it was not reliable.
Skandalakis says that, as an officer, Dula was making sure a vulnerable person was safe.
“I am flummoxed as an attorney, as a citizen, as to why they would do this to a guy who was simply doing his duty as a law enforcement officer,” Skandalakis said.
The city’s policy for license plate readers says, “The use of LPR systems is restricted to legitimate law enforcement purposes only.”
“Any person misusing LPR data is subject to civil and criminal penalties under state law in addition to termination of employment under city policy.”
Mims had a 20-minute phone conversation with City Manager Steve Krokoff and City Council Member Carol Cookerly.
They told Mims there is more to this story that they will be able to release in the next couple of weeks. For now, they cannot comment on an ongoing investigation and a personnel matter.
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