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I'm a dad in Dunwoody GA that's been investigating Flock Safety's contract with the Dunwoody Police Department since January 2026. What started as catching a Flock employee watching cameras in a children's gymnastics room at a private community center has turned into something I wasn't expecting.

Through Georgia Open Records Act requests to the Attorney General's office, I obtained emails and iMessages between Flock VP Bob Carter and AG Chief of Staff Travis Johnson. Here's what they show.

Part 1: The Relationship Nobody Knew About

The records start in May 2025. Frank Russo, a registered lobbyist whose firm Modern Fortis lists Flock as a customer but is not registered as their lobbyist, brokered an introduction between Flock VP Bob Carter and AG Carr's Chief of Staff Travis Johnson. The intro email references a prior meeting between Carr, Flock, and Nick Juliano (Flock's only registered Georgia lobbyist) where they discussed "what partnership looks like moving forward."

What followed over the next nine months, none of which was public:

• Carter and Carr met privately in Washington D.C. in July 2025
• Flock gave AG prosecutors a private product demonstration at Flock's own Atlanta headquarters
• Flock proposed deploying their AI tools across three of the AG's regional offices statewide

In January 2026, Flock organized an executive-level meeting at Georgia State Patrol headquarters to discuss a Georgia "Safe State" plan intended for presentation to the Governor's office. Present were the heads of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Department of Corrections, and the AG's Chief of Staff, alongside four Flock employees.

Part 2: The Amicus Briefs

On February 18, 2026, Carter texted Johnson asking whether AG Carr would be willing to file an amicus brief in United States v. Slaybaugh, a federal 11th Circuit case where a defendant was challenging the use of license plate reader evidence in his conviction. A ruling against LPR use could have set a precedent threatening Flock's business model across Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.

An amicus brief is a filing by someone outside the case telling the court how they think it should rule.

Johnson said he'd check with the solicitor general. Nine days later, Carr filed the brief defending LPR technology, joined by 18 other Republican AGs. Johnson sent it directly to Carter the same day it was filed. Carter replied: "That is amazing! Very powerful. Thank you!"

That wasn't the only brief. Johnson had separately emailed Carter a brief Carr filed in Schemel v. City of Marco Island, a case directly challenging the constitutionality of a Flock Safety camera system. Carter texted back: "Nice work on the Amicus brief. Please tell General Carr that we appreciate it very much."

Flock Safety's name appears nowhere in the Certificate of Interested Persons in either filing.

One more connection: on July 2, 2025 (six months before these briefs were filed) Flock Safety donated $25,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA). According to a membership benefits document obtained by the New York Times, $25,000 is the entry-level threshold for corporate donors to access RAGA's private briefing infrastructure. Every AG on both of Carr's amicus briefs is a RAGA member. Coordinating multi-state amicus briefs among Republican AGs is RAGA's core function.

None of this was disclosed when Carr made public statements defending Flock Safety.

Part 3: The Dunwoody Pressure Campaign

By February 2026, Dunwoody's Flock contract was under public scrutiny. Six days after Flock held a closed-door meeting inside Dunwoody City Hall with three high-powered DC crisis management firms, Carter was texting Johnson about the upcoming city council vote.

Here's what the texts show, in order:

• February 18: Carter tells Johnson the Dunwoody RTCC major "is happy to connect with you direct" and offers to broker an introduction
• February 19: Carter provides Johnson with Major Krieg's direct cell number after Johnson asks for it
• February 19: Carter texts: "Major Krieg would love to host you guys at the RTCC. Also, they are gearing up for City Council this Monday evening. There is strong council support, but one vocal detractor and a weak mayor. Love to have General Carr speak on behalf of Dunwoody Citizens and the top LE official in the state." Johnson: "Got it. We will connect with him...I will take a look at his schedule and let you know!"
• Late February: Johnson tells Carter that since Carr couldn't attend a council meeting in person, "I provided those examples to him so he could make calls to key folks in advance of the meeting"
• March 23: Carter texts Johnson hours before the evening council session asking whether Carr would want to "voice support." Johnson: "Thank you. I know he has been supportive behind the scenes and will continue to do so. I appreciate you flagging and I will let him know!"
• April 11: Carter texts Johnson: "Hey Travis — please check out my post on LinkedIn. I'd love to get General Carr's like, repost and/or comment. I'm fighting off a troll who is attacking tech in Dunwoody and me personally." Johnson: "Yes we will help here. We are also drafting an op-ed which I think will be helpful as well."
• April 20: Johnson texts Carter asking for Garrett Langley's personal cell number: "AG Carr would like to give him a call." Carter provides it. Johnson: "Chris is going to give him a shout tomorrow."

The Dunwoody City Council voted unanimously to extend Flock's contract on April 13th.

What these texts show is not a state official independently weighing in on a public safety issue. They show a private surveillance company's VP briefing the Attorney General's Chief of Staff on the political situation in a specific suburb, describing the mayor as "weak" and watching the state's top law enforcement official go to work behind the scenes.

Johnson then asked Carter for Flock CEO Garrett Langley's number because AG Carr wanted to give him a call personally.

Carr made every public statement defending Flock without disclosing any of this. He is currently running for Governor of Georgia. The voters of this state deserve to know that their Attorney General was privately coordinating with a surveillance vendor's VP, filing federal legal briefs at their request, and personally calling their CEO - all while publicly defending them without disclosing his financial ties to their lobbying network.

All this evidence is just what I was able to find through Georgia Open Records Act requests.

Here is the full writeup with screenshots: https://jasonhunyar.substack.com/p/inside-the-belly-of-the-beast-the

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I'm a dad that's been investigating Flock Safety's contract with the Dunwoody Police Department since January 2026. What started as catching a Flock employee watching cameras in a children's gymnastics room at a private community center has turned into something I wasn't expecting.

Through Georgia Open Records Act requests to the Attorney General's office, I obtained emails and iMessages between Flock VP Bob Carter and AG Chief of Staff Travis Johnson. Here's what they show.

Part 1: The Relationship Nobody Knew About

The records start in May 2025. Frank Russo, a registered lobbyist whose firm Modern Fortis lists Flock as a customer but is not registered as their lobbyist, brokered an introduction between Flock VP Bob Carter and AG Carr's Chief of Staff Travis Johnson. The intro email references a prior meeting between Carr, Flock, and Nick Juliano (Flock's only registered Georgia lobbyist) where they discussed "what partnership looks like moving forward."

What followed over the next nine months, none of which was public:

• Carter and Carr met privately in Washington D.C. in July 2025
• Flock gave AG prosecutors a private product demonstration at Flock's own Atlanta headquarters
• Flock proposed deploying their AI tools across three of the AG's regional offices statewide

In January 2026, Flock organized an executive-level meeting at Georgia State Patrol headquarters to discuss a Georgia "Safe State" plan intended for presentation to the Governor's office. Present were the heads of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Department of Corrections, and the AG's Chief of Staff, alongside four Flock employees.

Part 2: The Amicus Briefs

On February 18, 2026, Carter texted Johnson asking whether AG Carr would be willing to file an amicus brief in United States v. Slaybaugh, a federal 11th Circuit case where a defendant was challenging the use of license plate reader evidence in his conviction. A ruling against LPR use could have set a precedent threatening Flock's business model across Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.

An amicus brief is a filing by someone outside the case telling the court how they think it should rule.

Johnson said he'd check with the solicitor general. Nine days later, Carr filed the brief defending LPR technology, joined by 18 other Republican AGs. Johnson sent it directly to Carter the same day it was filed. Carter replied: "That is amazing! Very powerful. Thank you!"

That wasn't the only brief. Johnson had separately emailed Carter a brief Carr filed in Schemel v. City of Marco Island, a case directly challenging the constitutionality of a Flock Safety camera system. Carter texted back: "Nice work on the Amicus brief. Please tell General Carr that we appreciate it very much."

Flock Safety's name appears nowhere in the Certificate of Interested Persons in either filing.

One more connection: on July 2, 2025 (six months before these briefs were filed) Flock Safety donated $25,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA). According to a membership benefits document obtained by the New York Times, $25,000 is the entry-level threshold for corporate donors to access RAGA's private briefing infrastructure. Every AG on both of Carr's amicus briefs is a RAGA member. Coordinating multi-state amicus briefs among Republican AGs is RAGA's core function.

None of this was disclosed when Carr made public statements defending Flock Safety.

Part 3: The Dunwoody Pressure Campaign

By February 2026, Dunwoody's Flock contract was under public scrutiny. Six days after Flock held a closed-door meeting inside Dunwoody City Hall with three high-powered DC crisis management firms, Carter was texting Johnson about the upcoming city council vote.

Here's what the texts show, in order:

• February 18: Carter tells Johnson the Dunwoody RTCC major "is happy to connect with you direct" and offers to broker an introduction
• February 19: Carter provides Johnson with Major Krieg's direct cell number after Johnson asks for it
• February 19: Carter texts: "Major Krieg would love to host you guys at the RTCC. Also, they are gearing up for City Council this Monday evening. There is strong council support, but one vocal detractor and a weak mayor. Love to have General Carr speak on behalf of Dunwoody Citizens and the top LE official in the state." Johnson: "Got it. We will connect with him...I will take a look at his schedule and let you know!"
• Late February: Johnson tells Carter that since Carr couldn't attend a council meeting in person, "I provided those examples to him so he could make calls to key folks in advance of the meeting"
• March 23: Carter texts Johnson hours before the evening council session asking whether Carr would want to "voice support." Johnson: "Thank you. I know he has been supportive behind the scenes and will continue to do so. I appreciate you flagging and I will let him know!"
• April 11: Carter texts Johnson: "Hey Travis — please check out my post on LinkedIn. I'd love to get General Carr's like, repost and/or comment. I'm fighting off a troll who is attacking tech in Dunwoody and me personally." Johnson: "Yes we will help here. We are also drafting an op-ed which I think will be helpful as well."
• April 20: Johnson texts Carter asking for Garrett Langley's personal cell number: "AG Carr would like to give him a call." Carter provides it. Johnson: "Chris is going to give him a shout tomorrow."

The Dunwoody City Council voted unanimously to extend Flock's contract on April 13th.

What these texts show is not a state official independently weighing in on a public safety issue. They show a private surveillance company's VP briefing the Attorney General's Chief of Staff on the political situation in a specific suburb, describing the mayor as "weak" and watching the state's top law enforcement official go to work behind the scenes.

Johnson then asked Carter for Flock CEO Garrett Langley's number because AG Carr wanted to give him a call personally.

Carr made every public statement defending Flock without disclosing any of this. He is currently running for Governor of Georgia. The voters of this state deserve to know that their Attorney General was privately coordinating with a surveillance vendor's VP, filing federal legal briefs at their request, and personally calling their CEO - all while publicly defending them without disclosing his financial ties to their lobbying network.

All this evidence is just what I was able to find through Georgia Open Records Act requests.

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.

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 has spent months filing Georgia Open Records Act requests about Flock Safety's camera network in our city. Everything below comes from documents the city produced to me.

What the city promised: Dunwoody PD told a private community center that access to their private security cameras (including cameras in gymnastics rooms, pools, and fitness studios) was "solely for real-time critical incident response." They told the public that Flock is a law enforcement tool that keeps our community safe.

What actually happened: Flock employees viewed live and recorded cameras in Dunwoody over 1,000 times between 2023 and April 2026. In 2025 alone, they searched Dunwoody citizens' data over 400 times. The vast majority had no case number and no documented law enforcement purpose.

What Flock claimed: Their public statement said they had "authorized, explicit permission" to use Dunwoody as a testing partner. Their CEO privately told the community center's CEO the same thing.

What the city said when I asked for that permission: "The City of Dunwoody found no records that are responsive to your request." No contract. No memo. No agreement. Nothing.

What the mayor did about it: Met privately with Flock's CEO at a coffee shop before announcing a "solution" that changed nothing materially. She didn't disclose the meeting until I surfaced the text messages through open records. Before this, I had emailed her fourteen times about Flock concerns. She never responded to one.Flock employees viewed cameras in my city over 1,000 times including where children play. Nobody authorized it.

All of this is documented with emails, audit logs, text messages, and official city responses obtained through GORA. Happy to answer questions. If you would like to see the full write-up please PM me, I can't post a link to it because of new subreddit rules.

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.

I caught Flock Safety employees watching cameras in a children's gymnastics room. Then I found out why Georgia's AG Chris Carr, who is running for Governor, keeps defending them.