r/Dunwoody

I'm a dad in Dunwoody who has spent months filing open records requests about Flock Safety cameras in my city.

What I found: Flock employees viewed live cameras in Dunwoody over 1,000 times, including 3rd party security cameras inside a private community center's gymnastics rooms and pools. The police department told the community center that access was "solely for real-time critical incident response."

Flock claims they had "explicit permission" to use our cameras for sales demos. When I asked the city to produce that permission, their answer was simple: no such records exist.

Meanwhile the mayor met privately with Flock's CEO at a coffee shop before announcing a "solution" that changed nothing.

Full investigation with all the documentation here.

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."

I'm a dad in Dunwoody who was reviewing the security assessment Dunwoody presented to city council on 3/23 and something felt off: there were dozens of items where Flock provided no evidence, but they were being scored as acceptable. So I started digging, and what I found was worse than I expected.

Back in January, Dunwoody's Technology Director used her city email to solicit a $2,000 sponsorship from Flock for a professional organization she sits on the committee of. I don't have confirmation Flock paid, but she was asking a vendor she would later "independently" evaluate for money two months before that evaluation.

Then I found an email where she asked Flock's account executive to "help bring the score up" on the assessment she was supposed to be conducting independently.

Most concerningly, I found that the scoring rubric presented to city council wasn't the same one she started with. A new color category (Yellow) had been inserted between Green and Amber. Under the original rubric, items without evidence are Red by definition. The new Yellow category absorbed most of those findings before council ever saw them. 34 Red findings were presented to council as 2.

For context on why this matters: in November 2025, Senator Ron Wyden and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi wrote to the FTC urging investigation of Flock's "cavalier attitude towards cybersecurity", citing stolen law enforcement passwords and Flock accounts being offered for sale on Russian cybercrime forums. Dunwoody had this letter. The City was also sent evidence of Flock vulnerabilities documented by the Department of Homeland Security, and their cameras livestreaming directly to the internet with no login/password needed. The assessment still came back "risk acceptable."

The city council voted unanimously to extend the Flock contract on April 13th. The Technology Director has filed zero conflict of interest disclosures: I checked via open records request.

Happy to answer questions about the methodology or the underlying documents.