Agency procurement records, pricing, and other shady deals.
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Flock responds to allegations that its executives accessed cameras inside a community center gymnastics room — three months late, via blog post, and with a novel theory of what 'crime-solving' means.
Dunwoody tried to negotiate a Flock contract. The MSA won narrow concessions on data governance but left every structural problem intact. The drone program is ungoverned, Flock's liability in year two is $0, and sensitive law enforcement data is flowing to a third party under terms the MSA doesn't reach.
Flock's terms got worse. All of them. The new terms add perpetual data licenses, mandatory Georgia arbitration, and potential constitutional problems for every city that signs.
Flock customers are one signature away from losing data ownership.
How Flock leveraged a dysfunctional city council to install surveillance cameras in Coralville, Iowa without proper oversight or approval.
The Johnson County, Iowa, Sheriff's Office spent three months negotiating a $98,900 surveillance contract for another city—apparently without authorization from either government.
