FOIA’D EMAILS — JOHNSON CITY POLICE
He Was Told.
Every Month.
“After Aug. 20, I noticed, ‘Hey, we’re still getting outside agencies outside the State of Tennessee that are searching our network to include all the other networks in the United States.’”
Johnson City’s deputy police chief says he only noticed after Aug. 20 that agencies from other states were searching our camera network. But public records show Flock sent him an email on the first of every month spelling out exactly how many agencies had access — more than 1,800 of them outside Tennessee.
WHAT FLOCK SENT HIM
Not Buried in a Spreadsheet.
In Huge, Bold Type.
EMAILED JUNE 1
out-of-state agencies
1,935 total · May snapshot
EMAILED JULY 1
out-of-state agencies
1,959 total · June snapshot
EMAILED AUG. 1
out-of-state agencies
1,968 total · July snapshot
Every month, the number went up. And every month, Johnson City kept sharing your travel patterns with police departments across the country.
HE READS FLOCK’S EMAILS JUST FINE
“We Would Be
Honored”
- 4:24 PM
On July 16, a Flock account manager asks if Flock’s newsletter can feature “the pedestrian death on Market St.” as one of its “successes.”
- 4:39 PM
Adams replies from his phone: “Absolutely. We would be honored.”
Fifteen minutes. When Flock wanted a success story, the deputy chief answered right away. When Flock told him, in bold, that more than 1,800 out-of-state agencies had access to our cameras, he says he didn’t notice.
Claims of oversight fall flat when the deputy chief can’t be bothered to read his own emails.
IT WAS ALWAYS A SETTING
Out-of-State Agencies
on Sept. 1: Zero
By Aug. 24, after the public started asking questions, Adams wrote Flock: “We cut off sharing outside the state of TN.” Flock’s next snapshot showed 150 organizations, none out of state. It could have been switched off any month the email arrived.
Sources: Flock “Sharing Snapshot” emails to Deputy Chief Mike Adams dated June 1, July 1, Aug. 1, and Sept. 1, 2026; July 16, 2026 newsletter thread; and Aug. 24, 2026 “Changes to JCPD” email — all from the public records release of Adams’ Flock correspondence. Times are as recorded on the city’s email server. Quote: Murry Lee, “JCPD responds to Flock camera concerns amid calls for removal,” WJHL, Sept. 18, 2026.