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I am very salty and uncomfortable about something today. Something I've known about for a while, but I haven't really talked about that much, is that Flock Safety who assume needs no introduction at this point works with third party cameras. Which means that if you own a store and you install this retail network surveillance camera and your parking lot, Flock will happily act as a middleman and ingest and aggregate the data from it. Stick with me, it's gonna get a lot worse. Maybe you happen to see this video of me speaking at Dunwoody's City Council two weeks ago.
We could go to the nearest Falcon camera right now. And that's thanks to Jason Hooniar. Jason has been getting quotes and invoices in the millions of dollars. Just to be able to know what the police are searching on Flock cameras via open records requests. And when you see some of the information that he's dug up, you'll understand why he's not letting this go. So right off the bat, Flock is very clear about who is allowed to access footage and data
in both their marketing materials and their contracts. For example, no unauthorized users, including Flock Safety employees have access to the footage. Okay, well, a Dunwoody police officer by the name of Bob Carter searched the Flock database 63 times last year for all sorts of things like Person on skateboard or yellow truck. But the problem is, Bob isn't a Dunwoody police officer. He's not a police officer at all. He's Flock's VP of business development
and also a registered lobbyist. Also, according to public records on September 30th of last year, this same Flock Safety employee logged on and accessed a camera in the gymnastics room of the MJCC in Dunwoody. And as it would turn out, Bob is not the only Flock employee that accessed these Jim's cameras. Randy Gluck is also in the audit accessing these cameras on three separate occasions on three separate days between Flock employees, police officers, and names that I can't trace back
to either organization, you can see the combined hours of these people watching strangers and children through this facility's cameras, including, but certainly not limited to the pool, the fitline studio and the preschool daycare areas. And the bigger issue is that what we know is just a tiny fraction. The network is not adequately auditing who is accessing these systems and what they're doing with them. So let me ask you something. Are you okay with Flock employees or police officers
or God knows who else remotely watching your children practice gymnastics or watching your family members stretching or running on a treadmill? Will someone please explain to me how the fuck this makes anyone safer? I can't believe that this is an argument that I have to say out loud, but children have the right to practice a fucking cartwheel without the police or some dudes at a tech company watching them. Jason Hunyard, thank you for volunteering
so much of your time and money in fighting this. I look forward to seeing your statement at next week's City Council meeting.
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