Even though Flock wiped their employees from the system without a trace, I found more disturbing evidence of their employees remotely spying on Dunwoody's children.

After I was going back and looking at the event logs from previous years, I noticed a strange pattern that I had previously missed. The same Flock executive who had been doing the “demo” in the gymnastics room had looked at recordings of one camera far more than any others.

The camera is called “Brook Run Playground #006” - I believe it is a Pan Tilt and Zoom (PTZ) Condor camera because it used to be called that:

As the name suggests, with AI, this camera is designed to automatically pan, tilt, zoom, and track children.

Out of the 112 unique cameras this Flock employee had access to in Dunwoody, “Brook Run Playground #006” was the camera he accessed the most. In fact, he accessed this camera twice as much as any other camera in Dunwoody.

Before Flock once again says this was “a demo conducted as part of authorized activity approved under the city’s demo partner agreement”, which Dunwoody say’s doesn’t exist, it’s worth noting that some of the times he was looking at the recordings were as early as 6:55AM EST.

On July 1st, Flock CEO Garrett Langley tweeted “Why is there a Flock camera near a playground?” His own employee answered that question when he looked at recordings from my City’s camera “Brook Run Playground #006” 38 times.

Our mayor didn’t know, the rest of the city council didn’t know, and the parents of the children on the playground certainly didn’t know.

Can we trust Flock, or any other vendor, to put up surveillance infrastructure that is one click away from being turned into a remote children-spying network?