The city told the council
“The cameras do not have or use facial recognition technology, nor can users search the system based on a person's face or facial features, gender, or ethnicity.”Chief's agenda document, page 4
The record shows
Officers can, and did. Flock sells a search box called FreeForm, and Casa Grande has it turned on. From October 2025 through January 2026 the search logs show 84 searches for people by description. Stephanie Sjerven typed "male." Damian Guerrero typed "female wearing grey sweater." Kyle Short typed "person wearing black hoodie and black hat." Jeffrey McKean typed "child."
On December 9, 2025, Damian Guerrero typed "native female wearing grey hoodie with green lettering and black pants." Flock blocked it. Thirteen seconds later he typed the same thing without "native." It went through.
On October 21, 2025, Caleb Zadareky typed "hispanic male with a grey shirt, beanie, blue jeans and a backpack." Blocked. Later that day Christopher Mendez ran the same description without "hispanic" across 353 networks. Allowed.
Many of these searches were for runaways and missing people. That may be good police work. It is still a capability the council was told does not exist, and Flock's own patent describes sorting people by "male, female, race," clothing, and "height and weight."
84
searches for people by description in four months
The handout, page 4
See it yourself
