Flagstaff City Council | Flock Representative | September 2, 2025

Our Take

Credit to Jen's Two Cents for sitting through a full 22 minutes of Flock Safety's Director of Public Affairs, Trevor Chandler, making his case to Flagstaff City Council. When a company sends a "public affairs" executive rather than an engineer to a council meeting, that tells you what kind of pitch this really is: not a technical briefing, but a sales presentation dressed up as public safety policy. Councils across the country are hearing nearly identical scripts, and it's worth asking why the same talking points show up in Flagstaff, Arizona as they do everywhere else Flock is trying to close a deal.

What rarely comes up in these polished 22-minute windows is the part that matters most to residents: once a network of always-on cameras is logging every plate that passes, that data doesn't stay local, doesn't stay temporary, and doesn't stay used only for the original justification. Access creep, vague retention policies, and quiet data-sharing agreements with other agencies and even federal partners are the norm, not the exception, once a city says yes. A presentation built to reassure a council is not the same thing as a guarantee to the public.

If Flagstaff is moving toward a vote, residents deserve more than a company rep's pitch — they deserve to see exactly what's already watching them and to push back before contracts get signed. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and use our take-action resources if you want to speak up before your own city council hears the same script.