1. United States
2. Neb.
3. Letter

Launch a formal investigation into Flock Safety's deletion of surveillance records the company marketed as immutable. Lincoln residents deserve to know whether the city's contract with Flock Safety was built on false promises, and whether evidence that should have been preserved was destroyed. Flock Safety sold its license plate reader network to cities across the country by guaranteeing that captured data would be stored in a tamper-proof, immutable format. If the company deleted records it explicitly promised to preserve, that is a serious breach of contract at minimum and potentially obstruction of legitimate law enforcement and legal proceedings. Lincoln's residents and the city council need a full accounting of what data existed, what was deleted, when, and on whose authority. This is a public trust issue. The city entered into an agreement on behalf of residents, and those residents have a right to know if Flock Safety honored its end of that deal. Demand a full audit of Lincoln's Flock Safety data, a legal review of the contract, and public disclosure of the findings.