r/Dunwoody

I'm a dad in Dunwoody, GA who's been investigating Flock Safety's contract with the Dunwoody Police Department since January 2026.

On March 25, 2026, during the Dunwoody City Council Strategic Planning Retreat, the police chief told the Mayor and every council member on camera:

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You can verify it yourself at the 4:03:13 timestamp of the City's own YouTube video.

What are "shot detectors" actually doing?

Calling them gun-shot detectors is the least alarming framing possible. They are high-powered microphones that are already picking up human voices. Flock got caught sending recordings overseas to gig workers who were training their AI models to "distinguish between an adult and a child" — per their own training materials.

ICE Access

At a February 23rd council meeting, a councilwoman asked whether Dunwoody was sharing its data with ICE. Major Krieg's answer: "Ultimately we're sharing with any law enforcement agency that's reaching out to help us in a law enforcement capacity."

The Dunwoody Network Audit logs back this up: 35,932 searches in 2025 by DHS, CBP, and USPIS on data from anyone living, driving, or walking through Dunwoody.

Then on May 13th, after I filed an open records request for the Flock system settings, Dunwoody had in the coincidence of the lifetime just toggled on filters blocking immigration and abortion-related searches, right before handing over the records.

Worth noting: those filters don't prevent someone from searching for those reasons and just writing something else as the justification. That wouldn't show up in any audit trail.

Dunwoody is still opted into nationwide data sharing with 1,000+ external agencies, auto-approved without any human review. Since April 13th alone, 37 new agencies were auto-approved, including departments as far away as Louisiana, Ohio, and Virginia. Every single one of those is another vector for misuse with zero meaningful oversight.

And when a Dunwoody officer was caught using Flock illegally for personal benefit? She walked away without being charged. The system that tracks every citizen regardless of whether they've committed a crime apparently doesn't apply the same standard to the people operating it.

The Part That Should Make Everyone Uncomfortable

The City has already passed an ordinance banning "hate crimes" in 2019.

Here's what the ordinance actually says:

"Discriminate, discrimination or discriminatory means any act, policy or practice that, regardless of intent, has the effect of subjecting any person to differential treatment as a result of that person's actual or perceived… national origin."

The ordinance also requires the City to:

• Develop guidelines for identifying and investigating hate crimes
• Provide hate crime training to law enforcement
• Collect and report annual hate crime statistics to the FBI

Council members present and voting when that passed: Denis Shortal, Lynn Deutsch, John Heneghan, Tom Lambert, Terry Nall, Jim Riticher, and Pam Tallmadge.

Lynn Deutsch is now the Mayor. Lambert and Heneghan still serve on the council.

All three were sitting in the room on March 25th when the chief said the quiet part out loud. None of them said a word.

Even Flock's Own Ethics Policy Prohibits This

Flock's own ethical creed states they "will not adopt technology that... has significant potential for disparate impact on historically marginalized groups."

And two sitting U.S. congressmen (Krishnamoorthi and Garcia) have launched a formal congressional investigation into Flock over its role in enabling surveillance that threatens "the privacy, safety, and civil liberties of women, immigrants, and other vulnerable Americans." Their words: "Flock Group Inc. cannot claim to protect public safety while enabling surveillance that undermines reproductive freedom and civil rights."

Not calling the police is not a crime.

The City Council has one lever here: they can choose not to renew the contract. That's it. What they cannot do is keep pretending they didn't hear what their police chief said.

I'm a dad in Dunwoody 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 are the open records requests so you can verify yourself (I don't know why the texts are deep fried):

https://drive.proton.me/urls/T51B2AEW14#bBwSZvfvjpmC

https://drive.proton.me/urls/86GFF8QSM4#HlbC20adYMVX

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