Technology is an important tool which is used by the superior government to supervise and control local officials. However, it is popular with local officials. This paper focus on environmental mobile law enforcement system in L City S Province to explain the logic behind this strange attitude. We find that the initial motivation of many local officials is good. The reason why they don’t comply with the formal regulations of the organization is mainly due to the influence of complex social relations and bureaucratic relations. ‘Disciplining officials with technology’ provides a good opportunity for local officials. They use technology to resist relationships in order to achieve the purpose of self-protection. This paper holds that whether technology can resist the relationship depends on the technical hardness and the strength of the relationship. Different technical hardness and relationship strength may induce local officials to make  different behavioral strategy choices.