"Because It's a Predominantly Hispanic Community": The Police Chief Said It Out Loud. To the Council. On Camera.
I'm a dad in Dunwoody, GA who's been investigating Flock Safety's contract with the Dunwoody Police Department since January 2026.
On March 25, 2026, during the Dunwoody City Council Strategic Planning Retreat, the police chief told the Mayor and every council member on camera:
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You can verify it yourself at the 4:03:13 timestamp of the City's own YouTube video.
What are "shot detectors" actually doing?
Calling them gun-shot detectors is the least alarming framing possible. They are high-powered microphones that are already picking up human voices. Flock got caught sending recordings overseas to gig workers who were training their AI models to "distinguish between an adult and a child" — per their own training materials.
ICE Access
At a February 23rd council meeting, a councilwoman asked whether Dunwoody was sharing its data with ICE. Major Krieg's answer: "Ultimately we're sharing with any law enforcement agency that's reaching out to help us in a law enforcement capacity."
The Dunwoody Network Audit logs back this up: 35,932 searches in 2025 by DHS, CBP, and USPIS on data from anyone living, driving, or walking through Dunwoody.
Then on May 13th, after I filed an open records request for the Flock system settings, Dunwoody had in the coincidence of the lifetime just toggled on filters blocking immigration and abortion-related searches, right before handing over the records.
Worth noting: those filters don't prevent someone from searching for those reasons and just writing something else as the justification. That wouldn't show up in any audit trail.
Dunwoody is still opted into nationwide data sharing with 1,000+ external agencies, auto-approved without any human review. Since April 13th alone, 37 new agencies were auto-approved, including departments as far away as Louisiana, Ohio, and Virginia. Every single one of those is another vector for misuse with zero meaningful oversight.
And when a Dunwoody officer was caught using Flock illegally for personal benefit? She walked away without being charged. The system that tracks every citizen regardless of whether they've committed a crime apparently doesn't apply the same standard to the people operating it.
The Part That Should Make Everyone Uncomfortable
The City has already passed an ordinance banning "hate crimes" in 2019.
Here's what the ordinance actually says:
"Discriminate, discrimination or discriminatory means any act, policy or practice that, regardless of intent, has the effect of subjecting any person to differential treatment as a result of that person's actual or perceived… national origin."
The ordinance also requires the City to:
- Develop guidelines for identifying and investigating hate crimes
- Provide hate crime training to law enforcement
- Collect and report annual hate crime statistics to the FBI
Council members present and voting when that passed: Denis Shortal, Lynn Deutsch, John Heneghan, Tom Lambert, Terry Nall, Jim Riticher, and Pam Tallmadge.
Lynn Deutsch is now the Mayor. Lambert and Heneghan still serve on the council.
All three were sitting in the room on March 25th when the chief said the quiet part out loud. None of them said a word.
Even Flock's Own Ethics Policy Prohibits This
Flock's own ethical creed states they "will not adopt technology that... has significant potential for disparate impact on historically marginalized groups."
And two sitting U.S. congressmen (Krishnamoorthi and Garcia) have launched a formal congressional investigation into Flock over its role in enabling surveillance that threatens "the privacy, safety, and civil liberties of women, immigrants, and other vulnerable Americans." Their words: "Flock Group Inc. cannot claim to protect public safety while enabling surveillance that undermines reproductive freedom and civil rights."
Not calling the police is not a crime.
The City Council has one lever here: they can choose not to renew the contract. That's it. What they cannot do is keep pretending they didn't hear what their police chief said.