The vendor's public explanation, against the vendor's own contract.
Flock publishes a plain-English guide to what it does with the data its cameras collect. This page prints what that guide says, what the contract says about the same thing, and what the guide says about itself.
“Flock may use data in aggregate or technical ways to make the platform work better for all customers (for example, to continuously improve the system's read accuracy, to train the system to recognize new and/or special occasion license plate designs, etc.).”
That is the vendor, in its own public document, describing training on customer data. It is not an allegation and it does not need to be characterised — it is a published sentence with a date on it.
“This document summarizes the data ownership provisions of the Flock Customer Terms and Conditions. It is intended as a plain-English explanation and does not constitute legal advice. In the event of any conflict, the terms of your signed agreement with Flock control.”
The guide disclaims itself. It is not among the documents the terms incorporate by reference, and the terms require modifications to be signed by both parties. Its standing as a contract term is none, by its own text. Its standing as evidence of what the vendor tells the public is complete — and that is what this page uses it for.
“"Captured plate data" means the global positioning device coordinates, date and time, photograph, license plate number, and any other data captured by or derived from any automatic license plate reader system;”
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-12-1802(3)(A) · from the official act PDF
The definition reaches anything "derived from" the system — not only the photograph and the plate number.
The current public terms
“Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to (a) use and disclose Customer Data to provide the Flock Services; and (b) use Customer Data to support and improve Flock's products and services.”
“Flock Property also includes any derivative works, intermediate or final outputs, analyses, reports, models, or other results generated by or through the Flock Services.”
Two facts that need no interpretation
“…bars use of city data to train, fine-tune, or improve any machine learning, artificial intelligence, or algorithmic models except as expressly authorized in writing by the City Manager.”
City of Dunwoody, Georgia — Flock Master Services Agreement. Springdale's § 4.3 affirmatively grants the use this city's agreement prohibits. One contract next to another — no legal opinion required, and a question the council can answer: what data-use terms did the City negotiate before signing, and who reviewed them?
Connecticut, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, Indiana and Texas. Arkansas is not among them. That is a factual absence, checkable in one click — and the written question that follows is short: identify the contract language that adapts this agreement to Ark. Code Ann. §§ 12-12-1801 through -1807.
flocksafety.com/legal/state-required-provisions
And the statute the whole thing runs into
“Except as provided under subsection (b) of this section, captured plate data obtained for the purposes described under § 12-12-1803(b) shall not be used or shared for any other purpose and shall not be preserved for more than: (1) Sixty (60) days by a private landowner, private leaseholder, or commercial business; or (2) One hundred fifty (150) days by all other eligible entities.”
This is where Arkansas sets its retention caps — sixty days for private users, one hundred fifty days for everyone else. Subsection (b) suspends the cap for data held as part of an ongoing investigation.
Source · Act 668 of 2025, § 2
“(A) Captured plate data obtained by a private landowner, private leaseholder, or commercial business under § 12-12-1803(b)(4) may be shared with a third-party processor providing asset protection analytical services on the captured plate data as part of a contractual agreement with the private landowner, private leaseholder, or commercial business. (B) The terms of the contractual agreement shall expressly prohibit a third-party processor from using the captured data for any other purpose and impose a data retention period not to exceed sixty (60) days from receipt of the captured plate data.”
Added in 2025, and written only for private landowners, leaseholders and businesses — § 12-12-1803(b)(4). It does not reach data a police department collects. Even this one pathway requires the contract to expressly prohibit any other use, and caps retention at sixty days.