Flock Safety hired the firm that ran Meta's secret anti-TikTok campaign to manage a Dunwoody dad's open records requests
While I was filing open records requests into Flock Safety's contract with Dunwoody PD, Flock was holding a secret meeting inside Dunwoody City Hall with a $100M Republican crisis firm to figure out how to deal with me
I'm a Dunwoody dad who has been investigating Flock Safety's surveillance contract with the Dunwoody Police Department since January. Through open records requests I found Flock employees accessing cameras inside the Marcus Jewish Community Center, including a gymnastics room, without authorization. No demo agreement exists. The city has no records of anyone ever approving this.
But before I was even presenting that evidence to the City Council, Flock was quietly assembling a crisis communications operation inside City Hall. I found out because the calendar invite ended up in a city government inbox and I got it through open records.
The meeting included:
- The president of Targeted Victory: a $100M Republican political firm that “[brings] a unique network of public relations operatives to drive activations” of their “network of over 1,000 local operatives”
- The COO of SixAM Strategies**:** a brand new "hyperlocal influence" firm founded two months before this meeting, that “[builds] and [manages] hyperlocal campaigns that blend community outreach, grassroots advocacy, and media engagement”
- A former Biden White House communications director whose firm "crafts a proactive narrative and implements it through targeted outlets"
- Flock's own Senior Directors of Public Affairs and Government Affairs
Dunwoody's supposed representation at this meeting: one police lieutenant.
Today I published the full story and filed a formal complaint with the Georgia State Ethics Commission alleging that two of Flock's senior government affairs employees conducted unregistered lobbying activities in Georgia, despite one of them being a registered lobbyist for Flock in Washington State for four consecutive years.
The Dunwoody City Council voted unanimously to approve $215,000 more of Flock's surveillance apparatus two months after this meeting. Flock's own public affairs director celebrated the vote on LinkedIn calling the city council "the team."