RDAP shows flocksafety.com registered 2017-01-23 via Name.com (IANA ID 625), DNSSEC signed, served from AWS Route 53 nameservers. Aligns with the company's founding year.
Flock Group Inc. (CIK 0001751333) files its first SEC Form D — equity offering, file number 021-320335, accession 0001751333-18-000001. Atlanta GA; Delaware incorporation.
Second Form D, file 021-326371, accession 0001751333-18-000002.
Form D filed 2020-04-06, file 021-364374.
Form D filed 2020-11-02, file 021-379456.
Form D filed 2021-07-16, file 021-406646.
Sixth Flock-filed Form D, 2022-02-15, file 021-433722.
FTC publishes Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security (FR Doc 2022-17752, Docket FTC-2022-0053). Flock Safety ALPR data practices fall squarely within scope; no final rule has been published as of this run.
Reid arrested in DeKalb County GA on a Jefferson Parish LA shoplifting warrant based on ALPR + facial-recognition false positive; held ~6 days, released without charges (ev_036). National press coverage; templatable §1983 fact pattern named in kj_004.
Reporting indicates Flock Safety signed a data-sharing agreement with ICE in 2023 granting ICE access to its nationwide ALPR network for immigration enforcement (ev_037). Exact signing date not in surfaced record; ACLU campaigns in CA/CO/GA/NJ formed shortly after. The arrangement is the load-bearing controversy axis (kj_003).
Senate Commerce Committee members sent an inquiry letter (~2023) requesting disclosure of Flock's privacy practices, ICE contract terms, data-retention policies, and security measures (ev_040). Flock's response was not fully public per analyst KB.
Civil action Smith v. Flock Safety docketed in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio; case number 5:23-cv-02198 indicates 2023 filing year (ev_013). Substantive subject matter of opinions not extracted this run (PDF metadata only).
GovInfo granule USCOURTS-ohnd-5_23-cv-02198-0 issued 2024-04-15 (ev_013). Substance not extracted this run.
Two strong commitment signals land on 2024-04-22: (1) Presidio Trust publishes its ALPR SORN (FR Doc 2024-08473) naming Flock as operator and attesting SOC 2 / SOC 3 / NIST CSF posture (ev_010); (2) Mana Ventures Flock Safety, LP files SEC Form D (ev_022) — a dedicated single-purpose SPV. Same-day coincidence is mechanical (SORN routine-use effective date, fund close), not a signal of causation.
GovInfo granule USCOURTS-txsd-4_24-cv-03659-0 issued 2025-02-18 (ev_015). Flock-camera nexus inferred from search relevance, not PDF read.
GovInfo granule USCOURTS-ohnd-5_23-cv-02198-1 issued 2025-03-20 (ev_014).
ICE publishes a Privacy Act SORN update for the Search, Arrest, and Seizure Records system, modifying purpose, categories of individuals and records, and routine uses (ev_012). Provides federal records-system backdrop for the ALPR data flows under kj_003.