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Want to ask a Washington agency what Flock cameras it has planned or used? This is the request language we use as a starting point.

Before you send it: replace the bracketed agency name, make sure you've got the right records office, and adjust the date range if you need to. This is a research template, not legal advice.

Hello,

Pursuant to the Washington Public Records Act, RCW 42.56, I request electronic copies of existing records sufficient to identify the planned, proposed, approved, installed, active, relocated, deactivated, removed, rejected, or cancelled locations of Flock Safety cameras operated by or for [Agency Name] from January 1, 2019 through the present.

Please include Flock Falcon ALPR cameras, Condor/Condor PTZ or live-video cameras, and any other fixed Flock camera systems.

Specifically, please provide any existing:

I am requesting existing records, not asking the agency to create a new list. If a deployment map or list is maintained in a Flock or vendor portal rather than downloaded locally, please include any agency-held link, export, screenshot, attachment, site-survey record, or other record sufficient to identify the locations.

Please include historical records even if cameras were later disabled, removed, the contract was cancelled, or a proposed deployment was not ultimately installed.

If the agency has never operated, purchased, piloted, planned, or contracted for Flock Safety cameras and has no responsive deployment records, a brief response confirming that is sufficient.

Electronic delivery is preferred. Please notify me before incurring any fees. If another department or public-records officer is the proper recipient, please forward this request or advise me where it should be directed.

Thank you.

Why it's worded this way

The wording is intentionally specific. It asks for records the agency already has instead of asking staff to create a brand-new inventory, and it includes older, proposed, moved, and removed deployments so a current list doesn't erase the history.

When records come back, the same evidence rules still apply: a proposed location isn't the same thing as an installed camera, and an installation record isn't proof that a camera is operating today.

Read the evidence methodology