Hunyar says Flock's explanation “provides the opposite assurance of what they seem to purport”
Dunwoody, Georgia resident and privacy advocate who has previously spoken to the city council against its Flock contract
“Flock's claims that they impose restrictions on what users can search for in their database provides the opposite assurance of what they seem to purport. In doing so, they admit that their dynamic surveillance network does in fact capture this sensitive information, and that the gate to that information is controlled solely by the policies of a for-profit corporation.”
Source and context
Reporting
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404 Media's report, read in full on 2026-09-22, based on public records showing search audit logs from accounts named "Flock City PD - Law Enforcement Demo," "Flock Intelligence," and "Flock Safety - Commercial Sales Demo," which ran searches on live automated license plate reader cameras in Dunwoody, Georgia and Bryan, Texas, among other jurisdictions.
Before the quotation
Hunyar and her husband have previously testified before the Dunwoody City Council about the city's Flock Safety contract.
After the quotation
404 Media reported that Dunwoody residents have said they understand Flock needs to test its systems but "did not sign up to be guinea pigs for a surveillance company."
How this statement is classified
Responding to: The sensitive searches run through the Flock City PD and related demo accounts, including for "Star of David" and "vehicle a pretty girl would drive," were internal tests of the company's search-moderation safeguards, not investigative searches conducted by a customer law enforcement agency.
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Why this label?
Relative to whether Flock Safety's use of fake police accounts to search live license-plate cameras for sensitive queries was appropriate, Hunyar directly rejects Flock's defense, arguing the company's own explanation proves the sensitive-search capability exists and is controlled only by the company's own discretion, which condemns the arrangement rather than accepting Flock's justification.
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“Flock City PD is a demo and testing organization name used for law enforcement demonstrations and for our development engineers to conduct testing. Those searches were part of testing and validating FreeForm search moderation and related safeguards. These were not investigative searches conducted by a customer agency.”Read statement