Overview
- Ayala resigned hours before his scheduled initial court appearance Wednesday after being charged with attempted misconduct in public office.
- Prosecutors say he queried his romantic partner’s plate 124 times and that person’s ex 55 times over roughly two months last spring while on duty.
- The criminal complaint labels the count a negotiated issuance that required him to leave the Milwaukee Police Department.
- One victim learned of the tracking through HaveIBeenFlocked.com, a public site that aggregates official license-plate reader query records.
- Chief Jeffrey Norman says MPD is increasing audits and considering reducing the roughly 600 users with Flock access after prior reviews failed to flag the activity, and neither Ayala nor his attorney commented.