A Flock Safety executive logged into the Dunwoody Police Department's camera network on Sept. 30, 2025, and viewed a single feed: a camera inside a children's gymnastics room at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. According to access logs obtained through public records requests, he viewed no other camera in the city's 400-camera system that day.
That's the finding at the center of a letter to the editor published Sunday, July 19, 2026, by Dunwoody resident Jason Hunyar. The letter was published one day after a DeKalb County sheriff's deputy was fired and arrested for misusing the same Flock plate-reader technology.
What the records show
Public records obtained by Hunyar and reported by the Atlanta Community Press Collective identify the executive as Bob Carter, Flock's vice president of strategic relations and business development. A separate Flock employee, business development manager Randy Gluck, accessed three MJCC cameras labeled "Gym Mendel – 1" and "Main Pool Right" on July 23, 2025, according to the same records.
The MJCC had shared its cameras with the Dunwoody Police Department under a stated condition that access was "solely for real-time critical incident response."
Flock and city officials called the Sept. 30 access a "sales demo," claiming it was authorized under a "demo partner agreement." But Hunyar wrote that the city has been unable to produce documentation that such an agreement exists. The Dunwoody-Brookhaven Ledger has not independently verified that claim; the city has not responded to a request for comment.
"What kind of sales demo would require looking at one camera in a children's gymnastics room?" Hunyar wrote in his letter.
Council acted in April
The Dunwoody City Council voted unanimously on Monday, April 13, to approve a new master services agreement with Flock and a one-year, $15,000 contract for Flock's 911 dispatch software. Mayor Lynn Deutsch said at that meeting she was "concerned and perplexed" by the camera access and confirmed Flock employees had used Dunwoody's network "for a potential sales call with another law enforcement agency."
Deutsch said Flock apologized to the MJCC and would no longer use Dunwoody for demonstration projects.
The new agreement bars Flock from using Dunwoody cameras for demos, prohibits the company from selling captured data or using it to train its models, and requires Flock to notify City Manager Eric Linton before any contract modifications, according to the city's outside counsel, Jill Dunn. Dunwoody retains ownership of all data and decides whether any information is shared with federal agencies.
A city technology audit presented at the March 23 council meeting flagged concerns including "breach/security incident history," a lack of evidence for misuse controls, and no mandatory enforcement of multi-factor authentication for Flock users.
DeKalb arrest adds context
On Sunday, July 19, DeKalb County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Kabiru Salawu was terminated and charged with felony violation of oath of office and misdemeanor misuse of license plate data for unauthorized use of Flock technology. Sheriff Melody Maddox said in a news release that misuse of law enforcement technology "is a serious breach of the public's trust and will not be tolerated." Salawu, employed since 2009, was being held without bond.
Since 2024, the Institute for Justice has documented at least 24 cases of officers using plate-reader cameras for unauthorized surveillance of personal acquaintances. More than 55 localities ended Flock contracts between mid-2025 and mid-2026, according to the ACLU.
City Attorney Ken Bernard said at the April 13 meeting that the Flock controversy demonstrates the need for "civilian oversight before we introduce new technology."
The Dunwoody-Brookhaven Ledger has sought comment from the city of Dunwoody and Flock Safety regarding Hunyar's letter. This story will be updated with any response. Residents can address the City Council at its next regular meeting, scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 11, at Dunwoody City Hall, 4800 Ashford Dunwoody Road.
