What the city says. What the records show.

The cameras are the GPS. Each one knows where it is. When a plate on a watch list passes, an alert fires with the location and the time. With cameras on every main road, that is real-time tracking of any car on a list.

Any authorized user can create a custom watch list, and an entry can stay active for 30 days without a supervisor's permission. Officers in other cities used exactly this kind of feature to track ex-partners.

Everyone not on a list gets a searchable 30-day history instead.

Not today. But the plate-camera industry already sells bolt-on sensors that do. Leonardo's ELSAG SignalTrace reads Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RFID, and tire-pressure-sensor signals from passing cars and links them to the plate read.

Flock does not sell that yet. Nothing in the handout, the contract, or the policy forbids adding one to the same poles. "Do not" describes today's hardware, not a rule.

The cameras do notice people. Flock's patent describes an infrared motion detector that triggers the camera when anything moves in front of it. The handout admits people appear in the images.

The department's own policy describes its Real Time Information Center as a "liaison with other RTICs" that provides "real-time information to partner agencies requiring Casa Grande Police Department (CGPD) information."

Video also sits on Flock's servers under the same contract license as everything else.

The policy allows "sworn personnel or professional staff." The Real Time Information Center is run by "public safety professionals," which can mean civilians. The school camera agreement never defines "Authorized Users" at all.

Flock employees have accessed customer cameras too. In Dunwoody, Georgia, Flock staff viewed cameras at a children's gym, a playground, and a school as a sales demo.

The released logs show dozens of different user names running searches.

The department investigated itself and cleared itself. The handout does not say who investigated, what standard they used, or whether anyone outside the department reviewed it.

The handout says misuse can lead to "loss of access, an internal investigation, disciplinary action, or termination." It never says prosecution. The Institute for Justice has documented at least 60 officers nationwide who used these systems to stalk people.

The council approved money, not rules. Every promise in this handout comes from a department policy that the department can change "as needed," with no council vote and no public notice.

The council can fix that. It can pass an ordinance with warrants for location-history searches, a ban on people searches and federal immigration searches, a shorter retention period, outside audits with public results, and real penalties for misuse.

That sentence signals a longer retention period. Anything downloaded as evidence is already kept for years under state records rules, and the contract lets Flock keep what its AI learns from the footage forever.

The handout never explains why 30 days is the floor instead of the ceiling.

Look at the camera map at deflock.org, where residents across the country pin the cameras they find. Its count for Casa Grande: Mission Royale has about 5 cameras for roughly 2 square miles of homes. Downtown has about 17 in roughly 1 square mile. Val Vista Boulevard, where the police station sits, has none. Check it yourself.

No council vote and no public meeting decided where the cameras went. One deputy chief reviews locations once a year. There is no rule about schools, places of worship, clinics, or the courthouse. The elementary schools are already connected.

The drones are Flock too. Flock bought the drone company Aerodome in 2024. The handout never says so, and the city's flight dashboard is on aerodome.com.

A drone flying to a call passes over every backyard, pool, and patio on the way. The policy only bars "intentionally" steering cameras into private areas. Footage picked up along the way is kept under the same rules and sits in the same searchable system.