Eyes Off GSP

Spartanburg County Sheriff

Request #1: All contracts, licenses, MOUs, MOAs, data agreements, letters of intent, State of Work documents, Scope of Work documents, and other agreement documents with Flock Safety or Flock Group that were active any time between 1/1/2020 and 10/30/2025.

Results: View the PDF online at MuckRock.com

Overview:

Falcon Flex portable LPR cameras qty 2 and software access for $7,000 annually. - pdf page 15
Contract effective on 02/22/2024 for 2 years, auto-renews for 2 more years, requires 30 day non-renewal notice. - pages 1 and 28
Data retention period for Spartanburg County is 30 days. Flock can collect the data, meaning copy it to another location and retain it indefinitely.- page 15 and 25
Flock has the right to use our (anonymized) data to train their AI. - page 25
Flock is not liable for any acts by county staff. If someone wins a lawsuit related to the misuse of the Flock system, taxpayers will foot the bill. - pages 3 and 22
Customers own the data, and Flock has a license to use it. Flock cannot sell the data. - page 24
Flock can disclose our data to other agencies or third parties. This brings into question the meaning of the county "owning" the data. If the county doesn't have full control of the data, then do they really own it? - page 27, page 4 sec. 6.10
Flock can push updates to software or devices, with no language restricting the addition of new features. - page 22
Flock allows non-sworn county employees to have Flock accounts. - page 24
If Flock devices are damaged, taxpayers will foot the bill for replacement. - page 29

Request #2: 1. Organization Audit in Flock. The report should include data logged from the period of June 1, 2025 to November 30, 2025. Per Flock's documentation, the Organization Audit is available within the Insights tab and is defined as searches done within the agency. The report should include all selectable columns. 2. Network Audit in Flock. The report should include data logged from the period of June 1, 2025 to November 30, 2025. Per Flock's documentation, the Network Audit is available within the Insights tab and is defined as searches of the organization's Flock network by any agency in the Flock System. The report should include all selectable columns.

Results: Denied due to no responsive documents. See it on MuckRock.com

What this means:

The Sheriff's office has failed to be transparent in how the Flock system is currently being used by county employees and outside agencies with access to county cameras.
Their response implies that they have no visibility themselves into how the Flock system is currently being used by outside agencies.

Spartanburg Police Department

Results: View the PDF online at MuckRock.com

Overview:

Pilot program began 06-29-2022 with a 90 (day?) duration.
Contract #1 effective on 03/08/2023. pdf #1 page 3
Order changed on 09/23/2024 to trade 3 fixed LPR's for 3 portable LPRs. Contract duration 3 years, auto-renews for 2 more years, requires 30 day non-renewal notice. - pdf contract #2 page 2
Contract #2 includes Falcon Flex portable LPR camera qty 4, Falcon fixed LPR cameras qty 11, and software access for $42,000 annually. - page 2
Data retention period for Spartanburg PD is 30 days. Flock can reproduce the data, meaning copy it to another location and retain it indefinitely. - pdf #1 pages 4 and 13
Flock has the right to use our (anonymized) data to train their AI. - page 14
The city cannot touch the fixed LPR cameras. Any adjustments or removal of devices must be done by Flock. - page 8
Flock is not liable for any acts by city police. If someone wins a lawsuit related to the misuse of the Flock system, taxpayers will foot the bill. - page 18
Flock can disclose our data to other agencies or third parties. This brings into question the meaning of the county "owning" the data. If the county doesn't have full control of the data, then do they really own it? - page 18, page 13 sec. 4.1
Flock can push updates to software or devices, with no language restricting the addition of new features. - page 11
Flock allows non-sworn city employees to have Flock accounts. - page 12

Results: Effectively denied. First, they attached the same contracts from Request #1 and closed the request. I called the city attorney to clarify the request. I have since tried to follow up but have been ignored. See it on MuckRock.com

What this means:

The Police Department has failed to be transparent in how the Flock system is currently being used by city employees and outside agencies with access to city cameras.

Simpsonville Police Department

Results: View the PDF online at MuckRock.com

Overview:

Falcon LPR cameras qty 12 and software access for $30,000 annually. - pdf page 7
Initial order was signed on 10/09/2019. - page 6
Most recent order effective on 09/01/2023 for 5 years, auto-renews for 2 more years, requires 30 day non-renewal notice. - pages 7 and 10
Data retention period for Simpsonville PD is 30 days. However, Flock retains the rights to all recordings. - pages 7 and 2
Flock is not liable for any acts by city police. If someone wins a lawsuit related to the misuse of the Flock system, taxpayers will foot the bill. - page 2
Flock allows non-sworn city employees to have Flock accounts. - page 1

Request #2: 1. Organization Audit in Flock. The report should include data logged from the period of March 1, 2026 to April 30, 2026. Per Flock's documentation, the Organization Audit is available within the Insights tab and is defined as searches done within the agency. The report should include all selectable columns. 2. Network Audit in Flock. The report should include data logged from the period of March 1, 2026 to April 30, 2026. Per Flock's documentation, the Network Audit is available within the Insights tab and is defined as searches of the organization's Flock network by any agency in the Flock System. The report should include all selectable columns.

Results: Download the spreadsheets on MuckRock.com

Overview:

*How many searches were performed in a 1 month period (March 30 - April 30) on Simpsonville PD's cameras.*
SC Agency	Searches
Simpsonville PD	492
Greenville PD	1576
Greenville Co Sheriff	5709
Greer PD	696
Spartanburg PD	330
Spartanburg Co Sheriff	1480

In a 28 day period, over 1 million searches were perfomed on the Simpsonville PD cameras by 3,430 agencies across 46 states whom Simpsonville PD has shared access with.
Besides vehicle theft and missing persons, they are also using the Flock system with the following search reasons: welfare check, illegal dumping/littering, traffic infraction (suspended plate), disorderly conduct/disturbance, financial crime.
See examples of search entries here.

*Percentage of searches that do not have a case number entered.*
SC Agency	No Case #
Simpsonville PD	77%
Greenville PD	68%
Greenville Co Sheriff	65%
Greer PD	64%
Spartanburg PD	63%
Spartanburg Co Sheriff	63%

*Percentage of searches performed on 6000+ Flock customers nationwide.*
SC Agency	Nat'l Lookup
Simpsonville PD	4%
Greenville PD	20%
Greenville Co Sheriff	0%
Greer PD	8%
Spartanburg PD	19%
Spartanburg Co Sheriff	30%

Greer Police Department

Request: All contracts, licenses, MOUs, MOAs, data agreements, letters of intent, State of Work documents, Scope of Work documents, and other agreement documents with Flock Safety or Flock Group that were active any time between 1/1/2020 and 10/30/2025.

Results: View the PDF online at MuckRock.com

Overview:

Falcon LPR cameras qty 9 and software access for $22,500 annually. - pdf page 6
Contract effective on 07/27/2023 for 5 years, auto-renews for 2 more years, requires 30 day non-renewal notice. - pages 7 and 6
Data retention period for Greer PD is 30 days. - page 6

Greenville Police Department

Results: View the PDF online at MuckRock.com

Overview:

Falcon LPR cameras qty 50 and software access for $125,000 annually. - pdf page 82
More info on deflocksc.org

Audit Logs

Here's an example of the Organization Audit from Simpsonville PD.
In the Reason field, the text before the "-" is the category chosen from a drop-down menu, and the text after the "-" is an optional, manual entry from the officer.

ID	Name	Org Name	Total Networks Searched	Time Frame	License Plate	Reason	Case #	Filters	Search Time	Search Type
60136ed1-b6b0-4b4e-aa4b-3df5f1cea5b6	Darius Gleaton	Simpsonville SC PD	1	04/29/2026, 12:00:53 AM UTC 04/29/2026, 02:00:53 AM UTC		Larceny/Theft Offenses - warrants	05-26-001958	Minivan, Honda, white	04/29/2026, 01:52:25 AM UTC	search

Here's an example of the Network Audit from Simpsonville PD.
An officer from Greenville PD searched cameras from 1755 Flock customers, including Simpsonville, so the search was logged in the Network Audits of all those customers.

ID	Name	Org Name	Total Networks Searched	Time Frame	License Plate	Reason	Case #	Filters	Search Time	Search Type
fc5c4687-7d27-4e46-a7b9-8fe7958db3fc	***	Greenville SC PD	1755	04/20/2026, 07:00:03 PM UTC 04/22/2026, 07:00:03 PM UTC		Drugs/Narcotics - 10-83 INV	***	***	04/13/2026, 07:02:40 AM UTC	lookup - Mobile

An agency needs to be able to see who is accessing their cameras. The officer name, license plate, case #, and filters are automatically redacted. That doesn't leave very much information for the agency to understand how their cameras are being used. And unless they're using a powerful analytics tool, 1 million lines per month is too many to sift through and identify potential misuse. There's a significant amount of trust being placed in the agencies that they share with, and they're sharing with several thousand agencies. An agency can't possibly know the leadership at all those other agencies well enough to trust that their camera's aren't being misused against the community that they serve.

Here's another search by Simpsonville PD. It sounds like this search would return a list of every yellow car that drove through Simpsonville in a 2 hour period. The "Total Networks Searched" is essentially the number of Flock customers that this search went through. Since the number is "1" it's likely that they only searched Simpsonville's cameras.

ID	Name	Org Name	Total Networks Searched	Time Frame	License Plate	Reason	Case #	Filters	Search Time	Search Type
f041c643-28ed-4506-9bfd-67bfa69c5b13	Kelsea Neal	Simpsonville SC PD	1	04/21/2026, 01:00:15 PM UTC 04/21/2026, 03:00:15 PM UTC		Traffic Infraction -	05-26-001958	yellow	04/21/2026, 03:00:12 PM UTC	search

Spartanburg County Sheriff An officer investigating a theft performed a search over a 7 month period. They only retain access to data from their cameras for 30 days, but other agencies may have a much longer retention period, so this could have returned 7 months worth of someone's travel history in another jurisdiction.

ID	Name	Org Name	Total Networks Searched	Time Frame	License Plate	Reason	Case #	Filters	Search Time	Search Type
a0d8032f-43b7-494a-8b6c-b1d9aaf4d4f3	***	Spartanburg County SC SO	1678	09/11/2025, 05:30:00 PM UTC 04/30/2026, 05:30:00 PM UTC		Burglary/Breaking & Entering - theft			04/20/2026, 06:26:39 PM UTC	lookup - Mobile

FOIA

Table of Contents

Spartanburg County Sheriff

Spartanburg Police Department

Simpsonville Police Department

Greer Police Department

Greenville Police Department

Audit Logs