1. United States
2. Md.
3. Letter

States- Investigate Flock Safety Agreements and Strengthen Citizen Protections Audit every city and county agreement signed with Flock Safety. Pull the staff reports that council members and legislators relied on when they voted to approve these contracts, and check them against the actual agreement terms. If the staff reports downplayed data retention, inter-agency sharing, or oversight limitations, that discrepancy needs to be named publicly and addressed. Flock's systems build centralized databases of vehicle movement across entire communities. Police departments have signed agreements with vague limits and weak oversight, and drone-as-first-responder programs are being quietly layered on top. What starts as a pilot program becomes permanent infrastructure before the public ever gets a real say. That is not how democratic governance is supposed to work. Any renegotiated or new agreement must include strict data retention limits, a hard prohibition on sharing data with outside agencies without explicit public authorization, mandatory sunset clauses requiring affirmative renewal votes, and regular public audits. Constituents deserve to know exactly what they agreed to and whether their elected officials were given accurate information before they voted.