Weatherly is Flocked

With 2,551 residents as of 2024 (according to DataUSA), Weatherly hosts four Flock cameras to watch its citizens. The locations are as follows:

• Plane St (unconfirmed)
• W Main St (unconfirmed)
• Hudsondale & Maple
• E Main St (Near 2300 E Main St)
• Hill St, near North St

When Weatherly first signed on with Flock, they had did surveys on five sites and bought five cameras. When the contract renewed, though, they dropped a camera. I haven't been around Weatherly to confirm where their cameras are, but based on Google Earth data they are in the above locations.

Weatherly Borough Police Department is the first agency to hand over a copy of their Government Service Agreement, or master contract, with Flock. The agreement says pretty basic stuff, it's the same boilerplate Flock gives to all its partners. Some of the more noteworthy points I found in the contract:

• Weatherly Borough grants Flock a "non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free" license to disclose camera data and footage for law enforcement monitoring even after the contract is severed.
• The contract states "In the event of an emergency, Agency should contact 911 and should not rely on the Services." It also states Flock is not liable for "inability to capture footage" or "crime prevention."
• Flock deletes footage from their platform after 30 days, and it's up to Weatherly to archive footage they need.
• Weatherly agrees to indemnify Flock for claims arising from itself or its employees (among other things), meaning Weatherly may, in some cases, be liable to cover legal costs tied to Flock's employees instead of just their own.

In response to my RTK request, Weatherly didn't provide everything I requested, and some info they did provide had partially redacted content. They didn't provide any explanations or acknowledgements for either of these issues. No communication stating what they did or didn't provide, or why they redacted what they did, they just handed over the documents. The documents they provided include audit logs, the contract, order forms, and a site survey. This means, while Weatherly has been the most cooperative so far, I need to appeal this request to get the information I requested.

One last interesting thing to note. While I was scanning the physical documents into my computer, I noticed there were some duplicates. Generally fine, but I also started to notice that the duplicated files had some redacted lines. On one copy of the papers, the redaction was fresh and bled through to the other side. On the other copy, there was no bleed-through; the redaction was printed. I then noticed that, on the bled-through copies, you can actually still make out the text underneath the redactions.

It looks like whoever was preparing the documents made redactions, realized that the redacted lines could still be read, copied the redacted versions and drew over the redactions again, then handed me both copies anyway. Real smooth.