Flock Exposed - The Revolving Door
Millions Spent Buying Access
Flock Safety has spent more than two million dollars (2,000,000) on lobbying, and has hired lobbyists in dozens of states, often former government employees passing through the political revolving door, including in places where weak disclosure laws mean spending totals are not publicly reported.
Source: OpenSecrets News
Among the lobbyists Flock has retained are Bryan Lanza of Mercury Public Affairs, who served as communications director for President Donald Trump's first transition team, and Jennifer Lawkin Lukawski of BGR Group, the first executive director of the Republican Study Committee.
Source: OpenSecrets News
In Arizona, Flock retained Molera Alvarez, a prominent Phoenix lobbying firm co-founded by a former state superintendent of schools and staffed with several former state and municipal government employees, to represent its interests in 2025.
Source: OpenSecrets News
A Chief Who Pitched, Then Fell
Former Reno Police Chief Kathryn Nance pitched a four hundred fifty thousand dollar (450,000) contract with Flock Safety to Reno City Council members in November 2024, using federal coronavirus relief funds, without disclosing key information about how the technology could be abused. The council approved it unanimously.
Source: This Is Reno
Chief Nance was later placed on administrative leave in March 2026, along with five other officers, as part of a state-led misconduct investigation unrelated to Flock. She was terminated months later along with two assistant chiefs. City and department leaders have not disclosed the specific grounds for the firings. This case is included here as an illustration of how little scrutiny a chief's surveillance-technology pitch can receive at the time it's approved, not as a claim that her firing was connected to Flock.
Source: Police1, MyNews4
Why This Matters
When the people who once approved, championed, or administered a surveillance contract on the public's behalf later draw a paycheck from the company that sold it, the public loses a layer of independent judgment it was counting on. A lobbying corps built from former government insiders is specifically valuable to a company like Flock because those insiders know exactly which officials to approach and how local government decision-making works from the inside.
Questions to Ask Your Town
Has anyone who voted for, recommended, or administered our Flock contract gone on to work for or be paid by Flock or a lobbying firm representing Flock?
Did any lobbyist or consultant help arrange or promote our town's Flock contract, and if so, who hired them and how much were they paid?
Does our town require officials to disclose potential future employment conflicts before approving a surveillance vendor contract?
Would our town council want to know if the company campaigning to keep or expand our Flock contract employs people who used to work in local government here or elsewhere?
This page will be updated as more factual sources become available.