Where everything on this site comes from.
Nothing here is anyone's opinion. Every quote is from a public document, a court record, a government audit, a published study, or a published statement — and every one of them is listed below with a link.
The city documents
| Document | City | Date | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Council packet, including the Master Services Agreement and Order Form | Springdale | July 22, 2025 | City council packet, public record |
| Police Department Policy 10.14 (license plate readers) | Springdale | Eff. April 9, 2026 | Department policy, public record |
| Police & Fire Committee meeting recording | Springdale | July 14, 2025 | Public meeting recording — transcript |
| City Council packet, ordinance and Parks memo (Flock item, pp. 439–447) | Bentonville | May 14, 2024 | CivicClerk portal, public record |
| Board of Directors packet, Order Form, Statement of Work and staff report (pp. 62–76) | Siloam Springs | Dec 17, 2024 | Agenda Center, public record |
The public statements
| Statement | Who | City |
|---|---|---|
| "Dear Springdale Community" letter, on department letterhead | Chief of Police | Springdale |
| "Addressing Community Concerns Regarding Flock Cameras & Public Safety" | City Council member | Bentonville |
| Community letter, August 2026 | Police Department | Siloam Springs |
| Statements at the July 14, 2025 committee meeting | Flock Safety representative, Chief of Police, Chief of Staff, council members | Springdale |
The vendor's own published documents
- Data Ownership guide — flocksafety.com/legal/data-ownership, last updated August 21, 2026. The source of the "train the system" line.
- Terms & Conditions — flocksafety.com/terms-and-conditions, last updated August 21, 2026. Quoted on this site only as Flock's current public terms, never as any city's operative contract.
- State-specific contractual provisions — flocksafety.com/legal/state-required-provisions. Lists six states. Arkansas is not among them.
- Sole-source letters — included in the Bentonville and Siloam Springs council packets.
- City of Dunwoody, Georgia agreement — a public record from another city, showing the same vendor's contract with negotiated machine-learning terms.
The statutes
Pulled from the official act PDFs published by the Arkansas General Assembly — Act 1491 of 2013 and Act 668 of 2025 — not from a commercial code website. Two sections in this subchapter were rewritten in 2025 and the commercial sites lagged. Read all 12 of them in full →
The research
The incidents
Every one of the 109 entries links to its own source — a court filing, a government audit, an agency press release, or a named news investigation. See them →
The meeting information
Each of the 18 governing bodies was checked against that city's own page, ordinance, or agenda PDF. A handful of city websites would not load; those entries say so and link to the page a person should open. See them →