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Flock Safety cameras already scan ordinary Crossville drivers, with no warrant and no suspicion. Taxpayers fund it. Tennessee already has documented police misuse of the same kind of system. County drivers can get scanned on some routes into town too—not every way in or out is covered yet—so use the Cumberland page for County Commission. Use the short summary below, then email City Council, show up with a 3-minute speech, and ask every Nov. 3 candidate to put a Flock yes or no on the record.

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Main Street photo: Brian Stansberry / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Corner Flock camera: MiracleMiles / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

"I have nothing to hide."

That's what people said before Kentucky's governor had troopers record churchgoers' plates, before Trudeau froze truckers' bank accounts, and before the CCP built a surveillance state. Read why it matters →

Independent Crossville resident research: not the City of Crossville, Crossville PD, or Flock Safety. Sources include city invoices, the 2022 quote PDF, and East Tennessee news reporting. Corrections: info@crossvilleprivacy.org.

Got here from a card, a shared link, or a search? You’re in the right place. This page is Crossville’s research and action guide.

Short summary: what Crossville drivers should know

  1. Your plate is scanned automatically, mass capture usually needs no warrant and no suspicion, unless the city writes stricter rules. See also Fourth Amendment.
  2. A 2025 city invoice lists Flock at $30,000/year for 10 cameras ($3,000 each). Crossville paid $25,000 after a $5,000 credit. The 2022 quote and the 2024 invoice were $25,000 (10 × $2,500). This site has not found a city-published search policy, public map, or monthly use reports.
  3. East Tennessee has documented personal misuse of Flock (Oak Ridge) and a reported gunpoint stop from a Flock plate misread in Morristown (Business Insider : Flock alert).
  4. Flock Condor cameras (people-tracking video) were documented livestreaming with no login in Dec. 2025 (~60-67 feeds), found via commercial search tools, not a “hack.” Crossville has not published whether any Condors are local. Open-streams dossier →
  5. Canceling Flock does not fix the problem if the city just hires Axon (or another company) to keep scanning plates. Remove the cameras. Require warrants for specific lookups. Switching companies is not the answer.

One Tennessee story

A former Oak Ridge officer ran 18 personal Flock searches, pleaded guilty to 23 official-misconduct counts, and was sentenced in 2026. Flock’s product supports multi-agency search; Crossville has not published who can query local plate reads. Read the full misuse cases →

What to ask City Council

Ask for this first Cancel the Flock contract and remove the cameras.

Do not replace them with Axon or any other plate-reader company. Fix this by removing the cameras and requiring warrants for specific lookups, not by scanning every driver. Hiring a different company is not a win.

If they will not cancel yet Yearly public yes-or-no renewal vote No automatic renewal that skips a public vote, plus monthly use reports, a written search policy, and a public camera map.
Email City Officials Attend City Council Meeting 3-minute speech scripts

Full documentation ↓

2025 invoice: 10 cameras · $30,000/year list. City paid $25,000 after a $5,000 credit. No city-published search policy found. Crossville PD runs Flock ALPRs. INV-72526 billed 10 cameras at $3,000 each. The 2022 quote was $25,000. This site has not found a city-published written search policy, official public camera map, or monthly detailed use reports (queries, hits, and who searched).
10 Cameras Quote Q-00234 · 10 Falcons
$30,000 / Year INV-72526 list (10 × $3,000); city paid $25,000
No Warrant* *Mass capture usually needs none unless city policy requires one
Partners? Multi-agency search supported: Crossville sharing list unpublished
Primary record 2025 Flock invoice 10 cameras · $30,000 list · $25,000 paid Public map 10 sites in city records; no official map Flock plans from TPRA · DeFlock for crowdsourced pins Tennessee misuse Oak Ridge officer · Flock searches Oak Ridge: 18 personal queries · sentenced 2026
Nationwide · not Crossville

National dossier tallies

These counts come from this site’s nationwide case databases, not Crossville’s local camera program. They show the pattern other cities already documented: officer job losses, personal lookups, lawsuits, settlements, and municipal exits.

Officer misuse
116 Documented misuse cases
19,590+ Personal / wrongful lookups (min. known)
Jobs and court outcomes
102 People fired or resigned
78 People charged or arrested
(not a finding of guilt)
9 People convicted or sentenced
(plea, no-contest, or verdict)
Lawsuits, settlements & city exits
27 Wrongful-stop lawsuits filed
5 Constitutional / program suits
$3.68M Settlements awarded (incl. non-Flock ALPR)
227 Municipalities that ended Flock

As of . There are 116 documented misuse cases. Fired / resigned (102), charged or arrested (78), and convicted or sentenced (9) count people, not incidents (Savannah’s six firings are six people). Those three counts overlap: one person can be fired and charged, or charged and later convicted. A charge, arrest, or accusation is not a finding of guilt. Convicted counts a published guilty plea, no-contest plea, jury conviction, or sentence. The personal-search total is a minimum from the 31 cases that published counts (most do not). 27 wrongful-stop suits are separate from 5 constitutional / program challenges (Norfolk, Wichita, Boulder, Huntington, San Jose). Settlements sum to $3.68M across 12 paid wrongful-stop cases and include major non-Flock ALPR settlements cited for scale. 227 cities and counties ended Flock; the searchable table holds 293 records including pauses. Full methodology on the National page · Search misuse records · Search wrongful stops · Search exits · National cases.

Act now

What to do in Crossville

Ask sitting council: cancel the Flock contract and remove the cameras. If they will not cancel yet, ask for a yearly public yes-or-no vote before any renewal (no automatic renewal that skips a public vote), plus monthly use reports, a written search policy, and a public camera map.

Election 2026 scorecard Email leaders Show up at City Council 3-minute speeches Print cards Contact list

Meeting times, 3-minute speech scripts, and the full ask list live on the City Council page.

What to do in Cumberland County

As far as this site can tell, Cumberland County does not run its own Flock or ALPR cameras. Crossville’s city cameras can still scan county drivers on some routes into town. Use the Cumberland page to push County Commission to ban ALPRs and similar AI tools, and to ask the Sheriff about network access to city Flock reads.

Cumberland County page Commission meetings Find my district Email county leaders

Ask every Nov. 3 candidate, on the record

Before you vote: get a Flock yes or no you can quote. 3B Media posted the Election Commission qualifying list on Aug. 20. Regular seats: Mike Turner (incumbent), Kristopher Cole, Robbie Poore, Greg Wood, and Danny R. Wyatt. Unexpired Mayberry term: Cole, Melinda Kelsey, and Louis Morrison. That article does not quote a Flock or license-plate-reader position.

  • On Sept. 13, 2026, Wyatt told this site’s admin in a text message that if he had to make a decision today, he “would not support” having them up. That is on the scorecard.
  • On Sept. 15, 2026, Kelsey emailed that she is researching additional information regarding Flock; that is on the scorecard too.
  • On Sept. 16, 2026, Wood emailed that he believes anything associated with AI needs guardrails; that is on the scorecard too.
  • On Sept. 17, 2026, Poore emailed that other cities are not evidence Crossville PD has misused the system; that is on the scorecard too.
  • On Sept. 18, 2026, Poore emailed that he supports making substantially more information about Crossville’s Flock use public without repeated records requests, including the contract, policies, and regular reporting.

Early voting starts Oct. 14.

Copy-paste question:

Will you vote to cancel Crossville’s Flock contract, remove the cameras, and enact a full city ban on Flock, Axon, and any other automated license-plate reader or similar mass-surveillance tool—and require a voter referendum (same idea as Crossville’s water referendum) before the city may ever bring those tools back? If you cannot give a clear yes to cancel, remove, and ban, what exactly would it take for you to support that?

If you prefer, you can answer in short lines:

Cancel, remove, and ban — yes / no / other (please say what)
Voter referendum before any return — yes / no / other
If not a clear yes on cancel / remove / ban: what would it take? (conditions, evidence, process, timeline—be specific)

· Scorecard · City ballot

In the news

News

Spotlight · Crossville · October 14, 2026

Mayor Crawford moved to cancel Flock. Nobody seconded it. Cameras stay.

UC Now and the Main Street Journal reported October 14, 2026, that at the October 13 meeting Mayor R.J. Crawford moved to cancel the city’s Flock contracts and remove the cameras. He said if he had to answer whether the juice is worth the squeeze on Flock cameras, his answer is no. No other member seconded the motion. It failed. The seven cameras stay.

December is the next council. At the October 6 work session, deferral to the incoming council was already one option. UC Now reported the new member for the vacant seat is sworn in December 5. The city roster lists December 3 as the end of the current terms for the mayor and two members. Crawford said taking the cameras down now would not stop a later council from putting them back. This failed motion does not close the question for the council sworn in this December.

theucnow.com mainstreetjournal.llc 3bmedianews.com City Council writeup · Tennessee writeup · News card

Spotlight · Tennessee · October 12, 2026

Atlanta News First: Flock cameras went up before some councils voted

Atlanta News First on YouTube · Full article

Atlanta News First reported October 12, 2026, that some departments installed and paid for Flock cameras before a council or commission vote. In Maryville, the police chief told a work session the department started using Flock in 2020. The station said city records show the council did not vote until July 2024, when Maryville needed a state right-of-way permit. The city has 16 cameras. Mayor Andy White said the council was still gathering information.

Maryville turned over three plates on a list the cameras are set to ignore, with no expiration date. Staff told a resident there is no written policy for who is added. The police chief told Atlanta News First those plates were listed after cameras kept alerting on misread characters. Flock told the station a law-enforcement Safe List was removed, and that a few outdated sole-source letters still described privacy controls to enable certain vehicles to “opt-out” of being captured. The station said that line appears in letters from 2020 through 2026, including one the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office used in mid-August, before that office stopped using plate readers.

Asked whether Flock helps agencies avoid a budget review, a spokesperson said purchasing thresholds and whether a council vote is required are set by each agency. Dallas’s latest contract, $5.7 million, passed on a consent agenda as a sole-source deal. In Knox County, then-Mayor Glenn Jacobs said the sheriff’s office bought cameras in $24,990 batches, $10 under the county review line. Commissioners later ordered those cameras removed.

youtube.com atlantanewsfirst.com National writeup · Tennessee writeup

Spotlight · National · October 9, 2026

Sen. Ron Wyden asks the White House drug office to release a privacy review of its license-plate program

404 Media reported October 9, 2026, that Sen. Ron Wyden wrote the Office of National Drug Control Policy asking it to publish a 2024 MITRE privacy review of High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area surveillance programs, including an automated license-plate reader database that pulls in data from vendors such as Flock, Axon, and Motorola. The letter also asks for a separate analysis of ALPR systems and practices. ONDCP has not made that MITRE review public. This is a letter, not a statute. 404 Media’s earlier reporting on the HIDTA plate program is here .

404media.co Wyden letter (PDF) 404 Media HIDTA investigation National writeup

Spotlight · National · October 1, 2026

Federal judge suppresses a month of nationwide plate-reader records as a warrantless search

U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill granted a motion to suppress on October 1, 2026, in United States v. Kyle, No. 4:26-cr-00189-SEH, in the Northern District of Oklahoma. The order does not dismiss the case. A Tulsa County deputy queried Flock and a second license-plate system after seeing a California plate, before the stop. Hill wrote:

“[The deputy’s] search in just the ALPR system provided him with more than 50 individual records of [the defendant’s] whereabouts across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the ALPR systems [the deputy] used to search [the defendant’s] historical location information intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the information in the record, the only reason [the deputy] conducted that search was because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation of [the defendant’s] Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the remainder of the traffic stop because [the deputy] began following [the defendant’s] car while he conducted the ALPR search, which led to the rest of the evidence obtained during the traffic stop. Because the government does not identify any adequate exception to the exclusionary rule, all evidence obtained after [the deputy] initiated the ALPR search must be suppressed as fruit of the poisonous tree.”

Judge Sara E. Hill, Oct. 1, 2026. Brackets stand in for names in the order.

storage.courtlistener.com National writeup

Spotlight · National · September 8, 2026

Sheboygan, WI, council votes unanimously to end Flock; bags stay until hardware comes down

TMJ4 reported that Sheboygan, WI, Common Council voted unanimously September 8, 2026, not to renew its Flock contract. Fifteen cameras stay covered until Flock removes the hardware. WHBL reported the next day that the vote ends the contract effective December 31, 2026. WHBL reported the resolution cites a Flock account-executive email offering to sell anonymized traffic volume, vehicle-type, and speed data from the city’s cameras to the Sheboygan Department of Public Works — up to five years — while the Master Services Agreement said Flock does not own the collected data and was only supposed to keep it 30 days. The city’s resolution dates that email March 24, 2026, and states that the agreement also says Flock shall not sell Customer Data or Anonymized Data. Police said they did not consent and that the offer breached those terms.

tmj4.com whbl.com (Sept. 8) whbl.com (Sept. 9) National writeup · Data-license clause

Crossville runs Flock today. Below are recent stories about similar surveillance in the news.

Headlines summarize the linked outlet. A charge, arrest, or accusation is not a finding of guilt.

National cases · Not just Flock / Axon · Sources

Show every section
  1. Tennessee cases
  2. National dossier tallies (not Crossville)
  3. News
  4. Overview
  5. Signed Flock contract
  6. Camera Map · City site list · 2024 vs today
  7. Who is Flock Safety?
  8. Vendor cloud, not a city-owned camera
  9. FreeForm AI search
  10. Multi-Geo & Convoy Search
  11. Patent vs marketing (US11416545B1)
  12. Offense Type dropdown
  13. Flock’s PR playbook
  14. “Own the Narrative” council coaching guide
  15. Wapello: do not mention ALPR
  16. Nexar / dashcam mobile ALPR pitch
  17. Near-identical PIO language
  18. Open livestream exposure
  19. 51 cybersecurity findings
  20. CEO trust problem
  21. Federal / National Lookup sharing
  22. Overseas AI annotation
  23. Officials
  24. Oversight gaps
  25. Claims vs records
  26. Does this solve crime?
  27. Transparency portal
  28. Audit-log redactions
  29. Cost
  30. Misuse
  31. Cancellations
  32. Not just Flock / Axon
  33. Liability
  34. Officials lookup · Tennessee politicians
  35. State ALPR comparison
  36. Have I Been Flocked
  37. Media
  38. Records
  39. Regional network
  40. Related sites
  41. Fourth Amendment
  42. What you can do · push back
  43. TPRA
  44. Printables · Resources
  45. Contact
  46. FAQ
  47. Sources
  48. Sources, open livestreams
  49. Sources: 51 cybersecurity findings
  50. Sources: FreeForm
  51. Sources: Multi-Geo & Convoy
  52. Sources: Does this solve crime?
  53. Sources: Patent vs marketing
  54. Sources: Flock’s PR playbook
  55. Sources: CEO Langley
  56. Sources: Flock platform
  57. Sources: Not just Flock / Axon

Flock Safety cameras & ALPR surveillance in Crossville, Tennessee

Public records and local reporting on Crossville’s Flock Safety automated license plate readers: how the city got the cameras (Chronicle ), who oversees them, what they cost, and Tennessee misconduct cases that show what can happen when ALPR access lacks meaningful supervision.

How Crossville got Flock (2022)

In June 2022 , Crossville Police Chief Jessie Brooks told council and local media the department wanted Flock cameras as “extra eyes” for investigations, Amber/Silver alerts, and locating vehicles already in law-enforcement databases, not as red-light ticket cameras.

On December 13, 2022, City Council minutes record that Chief Brooks “suggests purchasing License Plate Readers” as an eligible expense on a state Violent Crime Intervention Fund grant application ($126,378). The same consent agenda records Police Chief Brooks recommending a Flock quote of $28,500 to purchase 10 cameras with installation. The minutes say a budget amendment was not necessary because the item was approved in the FY 2022–23 budget, and that it was not bid because the city treated Flock as a sole-source provider. Council approved consent items 5A–T except M on a recorded 4–0 vote (Shanks, Gernt, Crawford, Turner).

Sources: Crossville Chronicle (June 27, 2022) ; 3B Media (Dec. 5, 2022) ; Crossville Council minutes (Dec. 13, 2022) · . Then-City Manager Greg Wood publicly framed the system as extra eyes for the department. City Manager today is Valerie Hale.

What the vendor quote shows

Flock Quote Q-00234 (bill-to: TN: Crossville PD, 115 Henry Street) lists:

Open Quote Q-00234 → ·

What the signed agreement shows

The city-held Flock Group Inc. Services Agreement for TN: Crossville PD was DocuSigned February 14, 2023 by Chief Jessie Brooks. The order form matches the quote on camera count and year-one price: 10 Falcons at $2,500 each, plus $3,500 implementation. It sets a 24-month initial term and a $53,500 total contract amount.

The data-sharing clause is in the attached terms. Section 4.2 grants Flock a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid license to use Crossville Agency Data as Aggregated Data, and to disclose the Agency Data (both inclusive of any Footage) to law enforcement for investigative purposes only. Section 4.5 adds a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free right (during and after the Term hereof) to use Aggregated Data for other Flock offerings, crime prevention efforts, and machine-learning training. The same Crossville terms say Flock does not sell Agency Data or Aggregated Data. Sheboygan, WI ended its deal after citing a Flock email that offered to sell Public Works up to five years of anonymized data from the city’s own cameras under a similar “no sale” agreement that said retention is 30 days.

Download the signed PDF · Highlighted clauses · Records page

What the invoices show

City invoices produced under the Tennessee Public Records Act (transcribed at taxpayer cost):

  • Check 162776 (March 24, 2023): $28,500 ($25,000 cameras + $3,500 implementation)
  • INV-41778 / Check 168502 (June 21, 2024): $25,000 (10 × $2,500)
  • INV-72526 / Check 173897 (Sept. 11, 2025): list $30,000 (10 × $3,000); $5,000 credit; city paid $25,000

The 2024 invoice billed $2,500 a camera. The 2025 invoice lists $3,000 a camera.

How many cameras now

Quote Q-00234 lists 10 Falcon ALPRs . City records produced under the Tennessee Public Records Act match that count: a 2023 Flock site list of 10 cameras, a 2024 list that relocates three of them, and 2024–2025 invoices that still bill 10 cameras. That is still not a city-published official map. See the site list. Request later invoices through TPRA.

Flock transparency portal URL (https://transparency.flocksafety.com/crossville-tn-pd) is not publicly available, see the transparency portal section.

Local map

DeFlock map: Crossville, Tennessee

Crowdsourced ALPR locations around Crossville from the independent DeFlock project (OpenStreetMap). Pan and zoom to see reported cameras. The city still has not posted an official public camera map. Below the map is the 10-site list from city records. Ask council to publish a current map using our questions for City Council, or request the live inventory with a TPRA request.

Map centered on Crossville, TN. Data is community-reported and may be incomplete: open full-screen on DeFlock · report a missing camera on DeFlock · tip this site about a location or correction.

City records: 10 planned camera sites

The City of Crossville produced these locations under the Tennessee Public Records Act. They come from Flock’s 2023 installation list (10 sites, all on 12-foot Flock poles) and a 2024 relocation list for cameras #02, #05, and #07. This is a vendor plan the City held, not a stamped as-built survey, and not a map the City posted for the public.

No official city permit In a June 22, 2023 email the City produced under the Tennessee Public Records Act, Engineering Director Tim Begley wrote that he had “discussed the locations with the City Manager and the City isn’t going to issue an official permit.” The same email said staff wanted to meet at each proposed location to fine-tune the spot, including moving a City Hall-property camera toward the southern edge of that property.
ID Name Address Facing Mount Notes
#01 Walmart @ Matherly SB 424 Obed Plaza Southbound Flock pole, 12 ft 2023 plan
#02 Hwy 70 @ Obed River Park SB 2428 West Ave Southbound Flock pole, 12 ft 2024 relocation; behind speed-limit sign
#03 Main @ Livingston SB 334 N Main St Southbound Flock pole, 12 ft 2023 plan
#04 Main @ Burnett NB 392 TN-28 Northbound Flock pole, 12 ft 2023 plan
#05 Sparta Hwy @ Airport Way EB 16 Airport Way Eastbound Flock pole, 12 ft 2024 relocation
#06 Hwy 70 @ Obed River Park NB 2428 West Ave Northbound Flock pole, 12 ft 2023 plan
#07 Miller @ Stanley NB 1407 Miller Ave Westbound Existing traffic signal pole 2024 relocation off a Flock pole
#08 Miller @ Stanley SB 1255 Miller Ave Eastbound Flock pole, 12 ft 2023 plan
#09 Lantana @ Dorton SB 53 Hale Dr Southbound Flock pole, 12 ft 2023 plan
#10 Lantana @ Dorton NB 897 Old Lantana Rd Northbound Flock pole, 12 ft 2023 plan

This is Flock’s plan as the City produced it, not a city-stamped as-built map. Compare it with the DeFlock pins above; volunteer maps can lag or miss a move. Anyone can request the same records from the City Clerk.

Sources City of Crossville TPRA production (June 22, 2023 email from Engineering Director Tim Begley; 2023 Flock list titled “TN - Crossville PD”; 2024 relocation list titled “TN - Crossville PD - Relo Cameras #02, #05, #07”). City-held records. This page transcribes the list; request the originals from the City Clerk. crossvilletn.gov

Mapped cameras, 2024 vs today

Community-mapped ALPRs on the independent DeFlock map. Left is Jan. 1, 2024. Right is Sept. 10, 2026. Dots are volunteer logs, not a city inventory.

United States on the DeFlock map, Jan. 1, 2024, with almost no mapped ALPR dots
United States · Jan. 1, 2024
United States on the DeFlock map, Sept. 10, 2026, with mapped ALPR dots covering much of the country
United States · Sept. 10, 2026
Tennessee on the DeFlock map, Jan. 1, 2024, with almost no mapped ALPR dots
Tennessee · Jan. 1, 2024
Tennessee on the DeFlock map, Sept. 10, 2026, with dense clusters of mapped ALPR dots around major cities
Tennessee · Sept. 10, 2026

Same pairs on National and Tennessee. Live map: maps.deflock.org . Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Sources deflock.org OpenStreetMap copyright

Vendor dossier

Who is Flock Safety?

FreeForm AI search, Multi-Geo & Convoy travel tools, patent claims vs marketing, near-identical PIO language, the Aug. 2026 “Own the Narrative” council coaching guide, Condor (people-tracking video camera) livestream exposure, cybersecurity findings, and CEO statements, documented in the Flock dossier. The city is paying a subscription for vendor-owned cameras on a private cloud, not buying hardware it will own. Vendor cloud, not a city-owned camera →

Security failure worth reading first In December 2025, researchers found Flock Condor cameras (people-tracking video units) livestreaming on the open internet with no username and no password. Anyone who found the feed could watch live video, download days of archive, and reach admin panels through commercial search engines. Crossville has not published whether it runs Condor, Falcon, or both. Read the open-streams dossier → Sources: open-streams dossier · 404 Media · Benn Jordan / Jason Koebler reporting linked there.

Open Flock dossier Open livestream exposure · Vendor cloud · Multi-Geo & Convoy · PR patterns · Own the Narrative · 51 cybersecurity findings · Sources

Accountability

Who governs Crossville’s cameras today

Cameras were pitched in 2022 and funded in the FY22-23 budget. Today’s council and staff control renewals, written policy, and whether residents get a real public process. Roster and speaking tools are on the City Council page; emails and the August letter are in Contact below.

Council roster Email leaders Questions for City Council

Key staff: City Manager Valerie Hale · City Clerk Baylee Rhea · Chief Jessie Brooks (2022 pitch in claims vs. records). Full contacts: Contact Crossville officials.

These systems often launch without meaningful public oversight

Across agencies, ALPR portals (Flock today; Axon Fleet / Evidence tomorrow) commonly let an officer open a search window and pull travel history immediately. Flock later made an Offense Type pick-list required; the typed reason can stay optional. Supervisor approval is optional unless a city writes it into policy. Audit logs exist on paper; few Tennessee cities publish them, see audit-log redactions and Tennessee misuse. Switching companies does not create real oversight, see Not just Flock.

Typical ALPR plate search

  • Officer opens vendor portal (Flock, Axon Evidence, etc.)
  • Picks an offense category, types any reason, or both
  • Travel history returned instantly
  • No public monthly totals
  • Misuse usually found by internal complaint or journalist, not company “accountability” marketing

What Crossville residents can demand

Claims vs records

Flock / PD talking points vs. what Crossville records show

Vendor and local marketing tends to sound narrow (“extra eyes,” Amber alerts, database hits). Public documents from Crossville, and the East Tennessee network record, describe a broader, warrantless scanning platform.

Claim / framing What public records & reporting show in Crossville
“Extra eyes” for investigations, Amber/Silver alerts, and vehicles already in LE databases, not red-light tickets Chief Jessie Brooks’ 2022 pitch (Chronicle / 3B Media ). That framing does not create a warrant requirement, does not stop mass capture of ordinary drivers, and does not itself publish search rules. Flock later dropped the public “not used to enforce traffic violations” line, and Georgia mailed a phone-use ticket citing a Flock image; Crossville has not published a written ban. See traffic-ticket mission creep. Flock also pays GlobeNewswire to push abduction/missing-child press releases onto aggregators; the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Techdirt (a tech news site) report Flock provided fill-in-the-blank PIO press-release templates; and Flock buys labeled sponsored articles in police trade media (IACP), see Flock’s PR playbook.
A limited 10-camera deployment Quote Q-00234 lists 10 Falcons. City records produced under TPRA include Flock’s 10-site list and a 2024 relocation list for three cameras. The city still has not posted an official public map.
A manageable annual tool cost A 2025 invoice lists $30,000/year (10 × $3,000). Crossville paid $25,000 after a $5,000 credit. The 2022 quote was $25,000 recurring plus $3,500 implementation. Checks produced under TPRA total $78,500. At the 2025 list price, ten more years is $300,000 before tax or extra cameras.
“Proper guardrails” / responsible sharing Crossville still has not published a complete ALPR use policy, monthly audit totals, supervisor-approval rule, or public list of agencies that can query local plate reads. A redacted TPRA search log is now on the records page. Residents are still asked to trust a system without those city-published documents: request them via TPRA.
Cameras “don’t track people” / only plates Flock markets FreeForm natural-language search for vehicles and people by clothing/appearance (e.g. “man in blue shirt and cowboy hat”), plus Vehicle Fingerprint attributes beyond plates. 3B Media quoted in the FreeForm section wrote that Crossville PD located a truck “by filtering for the truck’s specific features.” This site cannot confirm that search was FreeForm. The article does not name the product, and Crossville has not published which search tools are enabled. See also InvestigateTV on training materials vs. public framing.
Lookups are for known suspects / stolen cars only Flock’s Multi-Geo and Convoy Search tools find vehicles that appear in multiple cities and vehicles that travel together, tracking travel history and associations without a warrant. East Tennessee training materials describe officers saying they had probable cause (“got PC”) from a Detroit-Knoxville travel pattern alone. Crossville has not published whether those tools are enabled or audited locally.
Company servers are locked down / feeds aren’t public National Condor exposure (Dec. 2025): researchers found Condor people-tracking cameras livestreaming with no username and no password (~60-67 feeds). Verified on-site by 404 Media . Crossville has not published whether it runs Condor, Falcon, or both, so do not assume local exposure without that answer. See open livestream exposure.
Transparency portal = public accountability The expected Crossville TN PD Flock portal URL is not publicly available, so there is no working public company page residents can check. Even a live portal would not be a city-published policy, camera map, or audit log. See the transparency portal section.
Misuse is rare / elsewhere A former Oak Ridge officer pleaded guilty and was sentenced after 18 personal Flock searches (23 official-misconduct counts). Regional misuse is not theoretical for drivers whose plates enter a shared vendor network. See Tennessee misuse.
ALPRs / Flock “solve crime” / raise solved-case rates Public-records hit ratios are typically well under 1% of plate scans; a match to a wanted or stolen-vehicle list is not a cleared case. Independent and records-based analyses (the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock public-records work, Spokane Flock audits, Atlanta FBI solved-case data) undercut the marketing claim, see Does this solve crime?.

Sources: Quote Q-00234 · Dec. 13, 2022 minutes · · Chronicle / 3B Media links in overview · city site list from TPRA · Tennessee misuse section · solve-crime sources.

Effectiveness claims

Does this solve crime? What public records actually show

Vendors and some departments pitch ALPRs as a major crime-solving tool. Public-records releases and independent analyses tell a different story: these systems photograph nearly everyone who drives past, then match only a tiny fraction to wanted or stolen-vehicle lists, and even those “hits” are not the same as cleared cases. Crossville has not published local Flock results (arrests, recoveries, or cases closed because of these cameras). Ask for them under TPRA and our questions for City Council.

Hit ≠ solved crime. A “hit” usually means a scanned plate matched a hotlist entry (stolen, wanted, etc.) at the moment of capture, not that police made an arrest, recovered a car, or cleared a case. Search volume and solved-case rates are separate questions. Vendor “crimes solved” claims are marketing until the city publishes attributable local numbers.
What the records show Numbers (sourced) Sources
California CPRA hit ratios, almost all scans are ordinary drivers The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Data Driven 2 table (agency-supplied detections vs. hotlist hits): Glendale PD 0.04%; Burbank PD 0.05%; Roseville PD 0.03%; San Joaquin County SO 0.04%; Modesto PD 0.06%. Earlier EFF California CPRA work found San Diego ~0.02% crime-connected at collection (98 of 493,000) and Irvine ~0.02% (40 of 217,000 over 90 days). Also, Business Insider reported Roseville police found Flock misread plates in 71% of stolen/felony alerts (a different metric from hit ratio). EFF: Data Driven 2 · EFF: CA CPRA examples · Business Insider: Roseville 71% alert misreads

What about Flock’s “10% of U.S. crime” / “20% of cleared cases” claims?

Those figures come from vendor marketing and Flock-funded / customer-survey studies, not Crossville outcome reports. Techdirt and 404 Media reporting documented Flock steering researchers, filtering inputs, and interfering with public-records access around those studies. Those are sales claims. Demand Crossville’s own monthly totals: searches, hits, arrests, recoveries, and sharing, not a national brochure.

Sources: Techdirt: Flock-controlled methodology · Flock marketing page (10% claim) · Full solve-crime bibliography

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Transparency portal

https://transparency.flocksafety.com/crossville-tn-pd

Flock sometimes publishes agency “transparency” pages for partner departments. The expected Crossville TN PD portal URL is https://transparency.flocksafety.com/crossville-tn-pd. As of July 2026 that URL was not a working public transparency page (requests fail / the page is unavailable). Crossville either has not activated a public portal, or the URL/structure changed. Compare with what residents still need in our questions for City Council.

Check Flock portal URL (availability may vary)

What a portal can show (when live)

  • Vendor-reported network / sharing context for the partner agency
  • Marketing-facing “transparency” metrics Flock chooses to display
  • A hint that the agency sits inside a multi-agency product network, not a single stand-alone camera system

What Crossville still has not published

  • Written ALPR search policy (who, why, supervisor approval)
  • Monthly public audit summaries of plate searches
  • Official public camera map + renewal costs beyond the 2022 quote
  • City-authored list of agencies that can query Crossville plate reads
  • A working public Flock transparency portal page (unavailable)
What you can do: Check the portal URL from time to time. If it goes live, save screenshots of any sharing or network figures and send them to City Hall with a TPRA request for the underlying agreements. Until then, use the TPRA templates for policy, audits, contracts, and sharing lists. Elsewhere in East Tennessee, MaryvillePrivacy.org used portal data to show gaps between “no formal agreement” messaging and large external-agency visibility.

Related East Tennessee research: maryvilleprivacy.org · Crossville records: TPRA templates.

Audit logs

Flock changed which fields appear in cross-agency audit logs

In November 2025, Flock advertised “immutable accountability”: every user action and search reason kept in an indefinitely available audit trail. On December 10, 2025, Flock’s own blog said every ALPR Search would require an Offense Type pick-list; the typed Search Reason can stay optional. On December 11, 2025, Flock’s Network Audit Logs stopped showing officer names, specific plates searched, vehicle fingerprints, and open-text search reasons. That change followed public scrutiny of audit data (including tools such as Have I Been Flocked that used those fields). Flock said the field removals were intended to protect officer safety and investigations. Reporting found they were also applied retroactively, with portal fields replaced by “REDACTED”, see sources below and misuse cases that relied on searchable logs. EFF reported September 14, 2026 that officers had been logging joke, empty, and insult reasons such as LMAO, sexy, d*ckhead, sh*thead, and f*ck this new search engine, and that a dropdown without proof hides improper searches. National writeup: EFF search reasons.

Vendor marketing is not a Crossville audit. If the city leans on Flock’s transparency claims instead of publishing its own monthly search summary and a supervisor-approval rule, residents lose the fields that helped uncover personal-use abuse elsewhere. Ask for city-held logs under TPRA, and ask which fields Flock still delivers to Crossville PD.

Sources EFF: insult and joke Flock search reasons (Sept. 14, 2026) Flock: Offense Type dropdown (published Dec. 10, 2025) Footnote4a: Secret Searches (Colwell email / redacted fields) () Unfiltered Ledger: “Immutable” logs aren’t anymore () Atlanta News First, audit fields / misuse () Footnote4a: The Platform ()

Taxpayer cost

What Crossville pays for Flock

City invoices produced under the Tennessee Public Records Act show what Crossville was billed and what it paid. The 2022 quote listed 10 cameras at $2,500 each ($25,000/year). The 2025 invoice lists those cameras at $3,000 each ($30,000/year). Crossville paid $25,000 after a $5,000 credit.

Year Document Amount
2023 Check 162776 (March 24, 2023) $28,500 ($25,000 cameras + $3,500 implementation)
2024–25 INV-41778 / Check 168502 (June 21, 2024) $25,000 (10 × $2,500)
2025–26 INV-72526 / Check 173897 (Sept. 11, 2025) List $30,000 (10 × $3,000); $5,000 credit; city paid $25,000
Paid so far Three checks produced under TPRA $78,500

On Crossville’s own invoices, the per-camera list price went from $2,500 in 2024 to $3,000 in 2025.

INV-72526 is Year 1 of a 24-month term for 2025–2026. Year 2 of that term is not in the invoices produced so far. At the 2025 list price, ten more years is $300,000 before tax or extra cameras. Request later invoices via TPRA. The 2022 quote is still on Legistar: Open Quote Q-00234 → .

Tax dollars fund the subscription. Ask for later invoices, the camera map, and a written search policy.

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When oversight fails

Tennessee misuse and misread cases

Full writeups for Oak Ridge, the Morristown plate-misread stop, and an Elizabethton facial-recognition arrest (not Flock) are on the Tennessee page.

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Cities that quit Flock

Municipalities that cancelled, removed, or let Flock expire

Cities across the country have terminated contracts, refused renewal, or let Flock expire, often after residents filled council meetings. Quitting Flock is not always quitting ALPR (some cities then hire Axon). Spotlights (Oshkosh, Verona, Staunton) and the full nationwide list live on the National cases page.

Browse cancellations → Search by city or state Search misuse records Search wrongful stops Not just Flock / Axon Search cancellations

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Not just Flock

Canceling Flock is not enough if Axon (or Leonardo, Motorola, …) replaces it

Cities that drop Flock sometimes install Axon plate readers next, or shop other ALPR brands. Axon also runs Community Connect, a national private-camera registry (Knoxville is already listed). Read the Axon / Fusus / Leonardo / Vigilant writeup in the Flock dossier.

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Fiscal & legal risk

Why Crossville taxpayers carry the downside

Crossville’s Flock quote figures and the verified research databases (National cases) point to a distinction city leaders often miss: Tennessee Code Annotated § 55-10-302 is a storage cap, not a grant of immunity from federal civil-rights claims if an ALPR-driven stop is later alleged to be unconstitutional. That is a civic reading of the statute’s scope, not legal advice, and not a prediction that Crossville will be sued or will lose. This site is independent research, not a law firm. The vendor markets the camera; settlements in other cities have been paid by taxpayers.

Risk category Documented examples Primary source
Wrongful high-risk stops from ALPR misreads Aurora ALPR wrongful-stop settlement: $1.9M (2024) ; San Francisco ALPR wrongful-stop settlement, $495,000 (ALPR systems, not Flock-branded cases; cited as liability scale) Guardian (Aurora) · AP · EFF (Green $495k)
Systemic Flock plate-misread rate (agency analysis) Roseville, CA: police found Flock incorrectly read plates in 71% of 1,427 stolen/felony vehicle alerts (2023–24). Roseville said incorrect alerts did not produce stops because officers must verify first. Business Insider (July 31, 2026) · National writeup
False accusation from plate-location coincidence Bow Mar / Columbine Valley, CO : Flock hits put a driver’s truck in a theft window; the driver proved innocence with GPS/video; summons dropped, also on National cases InvestigateTV · Denverite · CBS Colorado
Vendor audit / transparency reversals Dec. 2025 Network Audit Log field removals (officer name, plate, reason) after public oversight of audit dumps, weakens “immutable accountability” claims Audit-log redactions on this site · Footnote4a · Unfiltered Ledger
Records / transparency failures Everett, WA: $25,000 public-records settlement (June 2026) over unlawfully withheld Flock records, not a wrongful-stop payout HeraldNet: Everett settlement
Federal 4th Amendment exposure Schmidt v. Norfolk (dense Flock tracking stats; appeal); Carpenter; Jones (Sotomayor concurrence); McCarthy (Mass. ALPR mosaic warning), see Fourth Amendment ACLU: Schmidt · NBC: Norfolk tracking counts · Carpenter (Cornell) · DeFlock BHM: The Facts
Class-action / statutory-policy risk Bartholomew v. Parking Concepts (CA App. 2026: ALPR policy liability) + Boulder Flock class action (May 2026) Law.com (Bartholomew) · Boulder Reporting Lab
Low hit-rate / mass innocent scanning Low match rate to wanted lists / mass innocent scanning, e.g. Glendale PD 0.04% and Burbank PD 0.05% hit ratios in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s California CPRA table; CHP document ~0.3% alerts per reads (86,899 alerts / 27,545,659 reads). See also Does this solve crime?. EFF: Data Driven 2 (Glendale 0.04% · Burbank 0.05%) · CEHRP: CHP ~0.3% · Solve-crime section
Cyber + internal abuse GainSec (researcher Jon Gaines) whitepaper: 51 findings across Flock devices; hardcoded LPR password CVE-2025-47823 ; unauthenticated admin API CVE-2025-59403 ; Wyden/Krishnamoorthi FTC investigation request over weak MFA / credential risk; IJ ALPR stalking catalog 51 cybersecurity findings (this site) · Zenodo whitepaper · NVD: CVE-2025-47823 · NVD: CVE-2025-59403 · Wyden-Krishnamoorthi FTC letter (PDF) · IJ: ALPR stalking

Statute checkpoint: TCA § 55-10-302 (retention/storage limits) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (federal civil-rights claims) retention rules are not municipal immunity.

Open National case databases Signed contract Quote Q-00234 Archived quote Dec. 13, 2022 minutes Archived minutes

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Statewide politics

Officials standing up for privacy

Search officials · Tennessee · National cases

State comparison

State ALPR comparison

Open Tennessee page · National cases

Resident tools

Have I Been Flocked, what a “hit” can mean

HaveIBeenFlocked.com is an independent tool that helps people understand how ALPR networks log plate sightings. It is useful context for Crossville drivers, not a substitute for city transparency.

Why it matters here

  • Crossville cameras feed a shared vendor network other Tennessee agencies can join.
  • A plate “hit” can just mean your car drove past a camera on a normal errand, not evidence of wrongdoing.
  • Misuse cases (Oak Ridge and national job-loss cases) show easy searching with no warrant required.
Media

Videos & reporting to share

Videos and reporting worth sharing are collected in the media archive.

Open media archive · Condor (people-tracking video) livestream exposure

Primary Crossville documents and TPRA templates live on the records page. Bibliography: sources. Vendor background: Flock dossier.

Regional network

East Tennessee ALPR network: Crossville’s place in it

FOX 17 Middle Tennessee coverage, Knox County’s $800k / 10-year PO fight, the pause / Commission debate, and the East TN comparison table live on the Tennessee page.

Open Tennessee page · National cases

Related sites

Related East Tennessee & national sites

Other residents and groups are documenting Flock contracts, mapping cameras, filing public-records requests, and publishing misuse cases. The full list is on Resources.

Oak Ridge · related research Enough Secrets Oak Ridge neighbors documenting Flock cameras, contracts, and local action. Same East Tennessee fight, down the plateau from us. Visit enoughsecrets.com → Blount County · related research MaryvillePrivacy.org Maryville neighbors documenting Flock contracts, public-records fights, and council votes. Visit MaryvillePrivacy → East Tennessee East TN ALPR Transparency Center Multi-city record of who approved ALPRs, what TPRA produced, and how the regional Flock network connects Maryville, Oak Ridge, Johnson City, Crossville, and neighbors. Open the regional center → Crowdsourced map DeFlock: Crossville map Independent OpenStreetMap layer of reported ALPR cameras. Pan Crossville, then report poles the city never published on an official map. Open DeFlock map → Sighting context Have I Been Flocked Independent tool for understanding how ALPR networks log plate sightings, useful context for drivers, not a substitute for Crossville publishing its own audit logs. Try Have I Been Flocked → National fact sheet · Birmingham DeFlock Birmingham: The Facts Birmingham’s writeup on Flock’s scale, multi-agency sharing, Norfolk tracking stats, and cybersecurity research, with a source list. Read The Facts →

Full list: Resources. Also useful: NoALPRs.com (national campaign resources) · Report a camera on DeFlock · Email leaders.

How the Fourth Amendment is supposed to work, and how plate-reader networks sidestep it

Traditional path

  1. Specific suspicion of a specific person
  2. Articulate probable cause
  3. Get a warrant from a judge
  4. Then search

Flock ALPR path

  1. You pass one of Crossville’s Flock cameras (Quote Q-00234 lists 10 Falcons, not every street)
  2. Plate, image, time, and location are stored
  3. In typical Flock deployments, authorized users can type a “reason” and search (Crossville rules unpublished)
  4. You get no notice and no chance to object

TCA § 55-10-302 may limit retention windows, but it does not create a municipal immunity shield against 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims. Crossville still chooses whether to keep buying the product.

Key precedents & what dense Flock networks look like in court

City Attorney Randy York told Crossville City Council on August 12, 2026 that a Sixth Circuit decision and Tennessee’s plate-display rule mean motorists have no expectation of privacy in a license tag, and that Crossville’s cameras are plate readers only. That is the city’s legal position as reported. It is not a ruling about Crossville’s network. Carpenter, Jones, and McCarthy treat long-running, searchable location logs as a different problem from one officer reading a plate in traffic. Speakers at the September 1 work session made that warrantless-search argument again. Knox County’s August 31 ban is a local ordinance, not a court holding. The introduced Flock-Off Act would cut federal money for ALPRs; it would not, by its own terms, ban cameras a city pays for locally. This site is not legal advice.

Plain-language writeup of the “no expectation of privacy in public” argument, with the same cases: Why it matters. Secondary fact sheet collecting the same constitutional / Norfolk points for another city’s organizers: DeFlock Birmingham: The Facts .

Civic action

What you can do: push back lawfully

Ask City Council to cancel the Flock contract and remove the cameras. If they will not cancel yet, ask for a yearly public yes-or-no vote before any renewal (no automatic renewal that skips a public vote), plus monthly use reports the public can check. The steps below are ordinary civic action (email, public comment, records requests, printables). This is not legal advice. Tennessee law on plate covers is linked at the bottom of this section.

Email City Officials 3-minute speeches City Council times Election scorecard Full question list

Meetings: work session 1st Tue 5 PM · council 2nd Tue 6 PM · 392 N Main St · speech scripts · see next dates

Other questions worth asking: who can search, FreeForm/patent features, federal sharing, livestream exposure, and retention. Those are on the City Council question list.

What works best

  1. Pack City Council meetings. Work sessions are 5 PM on the 1st Tuesday; council is 6 PM on the 2nd Tuesday at City Hall. Bring a 3-minute speech script and a neighbor.
  2. Ask Nov. 3 candidates on the record whether they will cancel Flock and take the cameras down. Names and answers: Election 2026 scorecard.
  3. Email leaders with the September agenda letter. Cancel first; yearly public vote if they stall.
  4. File TPRA requests using the TPRA templates.
  5. Document cameras on DeFlock and hand out printables.
Illegal in Tennessee: T.C.A. § 55-4-110 prohibits tinted or camera-blocking license plate covers, even if the plate remains “readable.” Do not obscure your plate. Statute: T.C.A. § 55-4-110 .

Contact Crossville officials

Coming to council beats email alone, but do both. Start by asking them to cancel Flock and remove the cameras. If they stall, ask for a yearly public vote with no automatic renewal that skips a public vote. Ready-to-read scripts: 3-minute speeches.

R.J. Crawford
Mayor
Email Call (931) 456-2013
Art Gernt
Mayor Pro-tem / Councilmember
Email Call (931) 456-2013
Mike Turner
Councilmember
Email Call (931) 456-2013
Mark Fox, MD
Councilmember
Contact form Call (931) 456-2013
Valerie Hale
City Manager
Email Call (931) 484-7060
Jessie Brooks
Chief of Police
Email Call (931) 484-7231
Baylee Rhea
City Clerk, agendas, minutes, TPRA routing
Email Call (931) 484-5113
City Hall / general
Info desk · 392 N Main St
Email Call (931) 484-5113
Meetings Work session: 5 PM, 1st Tuesday · Council: 6 PM, 2nd Tuesday · City Hall
Public comment Register via the City Council page · 3-minute comment outline
Council roster crossvilletn.gov/city-council

FAQ: Crossville Flock cameras

Do Flock / ALPR cameras actually solve much crime?

Public-records hit ratios are typically well under 1% of plate scans, and a “hit” on a wanted or stolen-vehicle list is not a cleared case. Public-records work by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock, Spokane Flock audit math, and Atlanta FBI solved-case comparisons all undercut the sales pitch. Crossville has not published local results. Full writeup: Does this solve crime?.

Do Crossville Flock cameras require a warrant?

No. License-plate cameras scan vehicles automatically. Searching stored travel history is usually a lookup in the police system with a typed reason, not a warrant, unless the city writes stricter rules.

How many cameras does Crossville have?

Quote Q-00234 lists 10 Falcon cameras. City records produced under the Tennessee Public Records Act include a 2023 Flock site list of those 10 cameras and a 2024 relocation list for three of them. The city has not published an official public camera map. Transcribed list: city records, 10 planned sites.

Where are the cameras on a map?

The city has not posted an official public camera map. City records produced under the Tennessee Public Records Act include Flock’s 2023 10-site list and a 2024 relocation list for cameras #02, #05, and #07; that list is transcribed at city records, 10 planned sites. The DeFlock map shows community-reported ALPR locations around Crossville via deflock.org . Coverage on DeFlock may be incomplete until more residents report cameras.

What does it cost?

A 2025 city invoice lists $30,000 a year for 10 cameras ($3,000 each). Crossville paid $25,000 after a $5,000 credit. The 2022 quote was $25,000 recurring plus $3,500 implementation. Checks produced under TPRA total $78,500. See the cost table.

How do I request Crossville’s Flock records?

Use the copy/paste TPRA templates and email info@crossvilletn.gov (ATTN: City Clerk), CC’ing the City Manager. Ask for contracts, policies, audits, sharing lists, and camera inventories.

Is it legal to cover my plate to beat ALPRs in Tennessee?

No. T.C.A. § 55-4-110 prohibits tinted/camera-blocking plate covers. Use council, email, and TPRA instead. Do not obscure your plate.

Has Flock ALPR been misused in Tennessee?

Yes for confirmed Flock misuse: a former Oak Ridge officer pleaded guilty and was sentenced after 18 personal Flock searches (among 23 official-misconduct counts), two years per count with 48 hours to serve, per local reporting. See the Tennessee misuse section.

Is canceling Flock enough if the city hires Axon instead?

No. Multiple cities have dropped Flock and then installed Axon plate readers to keep scanning cars: Denver, Douglas County (CO), Grand Chute (WI), Syracuse (NY), and others. That changes the company name. It does not end mass plate scanning. Other vendors shop the same job (Motorola Vigilant, Rekor, Genetec, Leonardo ELSAG / SignalTrace). Axon products raise separate concerns too (AI report-draft tools that delete drafts; an Atlanta ethics case involving an official who owned a stake in Fusus while pitching it). Do not demo, trial, or “evaluate” Axon or any other plate-reader brand. Ask council to cancel Flock, remove the cameras, and refuse any plate-reader replacement. Fix this by taking the cameras down and requiring warrants for specific lookups, not by scanning every driver. Full writeup: Not just Flock · Other vendors · Gadget Review (July 20, 2026) .

Is Flock only license-plate cameras, or drones too?

Flock’s catalog already includes docked Drone as First Responder aircraft that launch to 911 calls, plate-reader hits, or gunshot alerts. On the Aug. 18, 2026 All-In podcast, CEO Garrett Langley told Business Insider drones are now the company’s fastest-growing line, with more than 200 DFR customers, while ALPRs are under half of forward-looking revenue. Crossville has published Falcon plate readers. It has not published whether any Flock drone product is in the live contract. Ask council before assuming the local deal is “just cameras.” Full writeup: CEO / All-In.

Can Flock cameras be used to issue traffic tickets?

The 2022 Crossville pitch said they were not red-light ticket cameras. Flock’s own materials used to say the cameras are not used to enforce moving violations. That language was removed after December 2, 2025. In Georgia, a mailed phone-use ticket cited a Flock image. Crossville has not published whether traffic-ticket use is enabled here, or a written ban. Full writeup: Traffic tickets.

Does Flock track people, or only license plates?

Flock’s core product is vehicle LPR, but FreeForm adds natural-language search that can include people descriptions (for example clothing). The company markets that cameras are not face identification. Also, Multi-Geo and Convoy Search track cross-city travel and vehicles that move together, tools that track daily travel patterns, not “only a plate hit.” Crossville should disclose whether FreeForm, Multi-Geo, and Convoy are enabled.

What are Multi-Geo and Convoy Search?

Multi-Geo finds vehicles that appear in two or more cities inside a time window. Convoy Search flags vehicles that repeatedly show up near each other. East Tennessee training materials describe officers claiming probable cause (“got PC”) from a Detroit-Knoxville travel pattern alone. Full writeup: Multi-Geo & Convoy.

Were Flock livestreams really left open on the internet?

Yes, reporting in late 2025 documented dozens of Condor-class feeds (Flock people-tracking video cameras) discoverable via commercial search engines with no login. See the open livestream exposure section and its sources.

What are the “51 cybersecurity findings” about Flock?

Independent researcher Jon “GainSec” Gaines published a Nov. 2025 whitepaper documenting 51 findings across Flock’s public-safety device stack (22 with assigned CVEs so far), including hardcoded LPR credentials (CVE-2025-47823 ). Flock published a response saying many issues require physical access and that remediations continue. Full writeup: 51 cybersecurity findings.

Can Crossville trust Flock’s “immutable” audit logs?

Not as a substitute for city policy. In December 2025 Flock removed officer names, plates searched, and open-text reasons from Network Audit Logs after civilian oversight tools used those fields. Ask Crossville for city-held audit summaries, see audit-log redactions.

Has Tennessee paid a huge ALPR wrongful-arrest settlement yet?

No Tennessee ALPR settlement matching Aurora’s $1.9M case or San Francisco’s $495k case, both non-Flock ALPR cases cited for liability scale, appears in the sources cited here. Tennessee’s record so far is felony personal use of Flock (Oak Ridge) and a reported Flock misread stop in Morristown (writeup; Business Insider names a Flock alert). Settlements elsewhere show what cities can face without written rules, see Tennessee’s record so far and liability.

What should I ask City Council?

Ask for this first: cancel the contract and remove the cameras. There is no remaining City Council meeting before this renewal. If they will not cancel: ask council to take a recorded yes-or-no vote rather than letting the program keep running without a public vote; publish monthly detailed Flock-use reports the public can check (who searched, what they searched, why, hits, and sharing); and publish a written search policy, public map, contract/sharing list, and whether FreeForm is enabled. How you can help: come to City Council and keep asking until they put cancel on the agenda, see What you can do, other questions worth asking, and meeting times and address.

When is the Crossville city election, and who is running for City Council?

Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. Early voting is Oct. 14 through Oct. 29. Regular City Council seats: Mike Turner (incumbent), Kristopher Cole, Robbie Poore, Greg Wood, and Danny R. Wyatt. Unexpired Mayberry term: Cole, Melinda Kelsey, and Louis Morrison. The Aug. 20, 2026 3B Media qualifying list does not quote a Flock or license-plate-reader position. On Sept. 13, 2026, Wyatt told this site’s admin in a text message that if he had to make a decision today, he “would not support” having them up. On Sept. 15, 2026, Kelsey emailed that she is researching additional information regarding Flock and has not given a clear answer yet. On Sept. 16, 2026, Wood emailed that he believes anything associated with AI needs guardrails and has not given a clear answer on cancel. On Sept. 17, 2026, Poore emailed that other cities are not evidence Crossville PD has misused the system and has not given a clear answer on cancel. On Sept. 18, 2026, he emailed that he supports making substantially more information about Crossville’s Flock use public without repeated records requests, including the contract, policies, and regular reporting. This site emailed Mike Turner, Kristopher Cole, and Louis Morrison more than once at the addresses they listed with the Cumberland County Election Commission and received no response whatsoever. Ask before you vote. Scorecard: Election 2026.

Does Maine or Virginia have laws Tennessee could copy?

Yes. Maine broadly prohibits ALPR use except for narrow government and law-enforcement exceptions, caps ordinary data retention at 21 days, and makes violations a Class E crime. Virginia requires 21-day deletion unless tied to an active investigation, mandates written agency policies, audit trails, internal audits, public reporting, vendor restrictions, and limits on data sharing. Tennessee caps ordinary ALPR storage at 90 days under TCA § 55-10-302 but lacks that broader package. See the state-level ALPR comparison.

Does state retention law protect Crossville from lawsuits?

TCA § 55-10-302 is a storage cap. It is not a grant of immunity from federal § 1983 claims if a stop is later alleged to be unconstitutional. That is a civic reading of the statute’s scope. It is not legal advice and not a prediction that Crossville will be sued or will lose.

Is this affiliated with MaryvillePrivacy.org?

This site follows a similar approach to that East Tennessee project. The content here is specific to Crossville and Cumberland County, drawn from Crossville procurement documents, city roster pages, local reporting, and Tennessee misuse cases.

Bibliography

All cited sources

Every citation on this site: FreeForm, patent US11416545B1, Tennessee cases, cancellations, cybersecurity, Axon, and more, is listed on the sources page.

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