NWA Truth · Explainer · Springdale, Arkansas · September 13, 2026
Hardware v Software. The camera count is the wrong question.
Everyone argues about how many Flock cameras Springdale, Arkansas bought. That is the hardware. The thing that matters is how many cameras are connected to the Flock Operating System, and that number is not the same number.
Hardware
The physical mechanism you see. The lens, the charging station, the camera itself.
Software
The control board behind it. What tells it how to move, where to send the data, how to use the data.
That is why the argument is not about how many Flock cameras there are. It is about how many cameras are connected to the Flock Operating System. An easy analogy is your brain being the software and the body being the hardware.
171 minimum, and that is just Springdale, Arkansas
There are 171 cameras and video streams minimum across the City of Springdale, Arkansas, on three separate systems, every one of them documented in a Freedom of Information Act production.
Cameras the police chief says are integrated into Flock
Chief Derek Wright, in writing, August 31, 2026. City IT sent Flock a spreadsheet on September 17, 2025 listing eight City camera servers, 70 cameras and 142 streams for gateway integration.
Flock’s own cameras: 12 license plate readers, 6 PTZ, 6 community partnership
Flock device health inventory produced to the City, September 3, 2026. The same export lists 24 compute boxes alongside them.
City Hall channels: 2 second-floor stairwells, 3 in the council chambers
DVR channel manifest produced on the City’s USB, September 2, 2026.
The 24 are Flock’s own hardware. The 142 are not: they are City cameras already hanging in parks, at the airport and around public buildings, pulled into FlockOS through gateways. That is the whole point. A city does not have to buy a camera from Flock for Flock to be the software running it.
The last five are the open question. The September 2, 2026 export of the City Hall DVR shows no Flock gateway channel, and the City has never stated in writing whether any City Hall interior camera touches Flock. It was asked. It answered the numbered items around that one.
142 city cameras: the Chief’s words, and the City’s list
The number is the Chief’s, in writing, and it matches the list the City’s own IT department sent Flock a year earlier. Here is the email, with the question it answered.
Are the 142 cameras private or business cameras?
No. Chief Derek Wright wrote on August 31, 2026: "There are 142 city cameras integrated into Flock." On September 17, 2025, City IT sent Flock Safety a list of eight City camera servers, 70 cameras and 142 streams for gateway integration. Neither document counts a private or business camera. Springdale, Arkansas runs a separate voluntary Camera Registration Program for residents and businesses; its page gives no number and does not mention 142.
Did the Chief say the cameras are "connected"?
No. His word, in writing on August 31, 2026, is "integrated," and the noun is "city cameras." The sentence is printed above in full, with the question it answered.
Does Springdale, Arkansas own 142 Flock cameras?
No. Flock Safety's device inventory produced to the City on September 3, 2026 lists 24 Flock devices: 12 license plate readers, 6 PTZ cameras and 6 community partnership cameras. The 142 are the City's own cameras, integrated into Flock.
Irrevocable and perpetual
The contract gives them worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual use of our “stolen” or “transferred” away data. Notice they used irrevocable and perpetual both.
Irrevocable
Means unchangeable. The giver cannot cancel, revoke, or take the agreement back. It deals with permission.
Perpetual
Means never-ending. It lasts forever in time. It deals with duration.
Here are the two sentences those words sit in.
“As between Flock and Customer, all right, title and interest in the Customer Data, belong to and are retained solely by Customer. Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide license to use the Customer Data and perform all acts as may be necessary for Flock to provide the Flock Services to Customer. Flock does not own and shall not sell Customer Data.”
“Customer hereby grants Flock a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free right to use and distribute such Anonymized Data to improve and enhance the Services and for other development, diagnostic and corrective purposes, and other Flock offerings. Parties understand that the aforementioned license is required for continuity of Services. Flock does not own and shall not sell Anonymized Data.”
This has nothing to do with safety
Remember, this has nothing to do with safety. We had cameras far before this mass interconnected surveillance system. The goal is control, revenue for the government, more taxes, more fines, and maybe worse in the long run.
Simply put, this is too much power for ANYONE to wield. That is why this country is set up on the separation of powers.
Here is our only route out that I can find
If a court finds that the government’s contract-based data collection violated the Fourth Amendment, the legal remedies trigger immediately.
- The evidence is destroyed or suppressed. Under the Exclusionary Rule, the government cannot use any of that data, or any evidence they found because of that data, against you in a court of law.
- They must purge the data. While you cannot physically take back digital copies of data in the same way you reclaim a seized car, a federal judge can issue an injunction forcing the government to completely delete and purge the illegally obtained files from their databases.
The bottom line
The government cannot contract its way around the Bill of Rights. If a tech company signs an “irrevocable, perpetual” agreement to feed citizen data to law enforcement without a warrant, the agreement itself is likely unconstitutional. The moment a court finds it violates a reasonable expectation of privacy, the government is legally blocked from using it and must purge the files.
God, allow our eyes to open. And citizens of Springdale, Arkansas, please vote these people out the first chance we get. This is the swamp, this is the deep state, this is politicians acting against the will of the people.
Record compiled September 13, 2026. Every figure on this page comes from a document the City of Springdale, Arkansas or Flock Safety produced. Corrections require a document, a date, and a URL.
Where this comes from
- Master Services Agreement and Order Form, City of Springdale, Arkansas and Flock Group Inc. — read the contract
- Chief Derek Wright, in writing, August 31, 2026: “There are 142 city cameras integrated into Flock.” — the email
- City IT to Flock Safety, September 17, 2025 — eight City camera servers, 70 cameras, 142 streams, for gateway integration
- Flock Safety device health inventory produced to the City, September 3, 2026 — 12 license plate readers, 6 PTZ, 6 community partnership cameras, 24 compute boxes
- City Hall DVR channel manifest produced on the City’s USB, September 2, 2026 — five channels
- ICE arrests in Northwest Arkansas 2026
- Everything else on this site, and where it comes from