An independent public-source record of Mt. Juliet’s Guardian Shield and broader Flock Safe City technology: what is deployed, what the city has purchased, what it costs, who approved it, what rules govern it, and whether public safeguards can be verified.
This score measures how easily a resident can independently verify scope, spending, rules, sharing, audits, outcomes and governance. It does not score legality, police integrity, crime reduction, or whether the technology should exist.
Public: Current ALPR location/direction list; DFR page; police acknowledges city-wide LPR and camera networks.
Gap: No consolidated product-by-product deployment inventory; no authoritative physical ALPR camera count; Condor/Raven/mobile/integration quantities are not publicly enumerated.
Improve: Publish annual inventory by product, physical device count, location, ownership, activation date and funding source.
Primary sourcePublic: Major Flock contract, payment schedule and Board approval records are public.
Gap: No single actual-spending/invoice ledger; original Rekor procurement/transition is incomplete in one place; public Flock order form contains a corrected/uncorrected total discrepancy.
Improve: Publish invoices, amendments, grants and cumulative actual spend in one annual technology report.
Primary sourcePublic: City ordinance, current ALPR general order, state-law references and contract are publicly accessible.
Gap: Prior policy versions/redlines are not presented together; broader Safe City products do not have one consolidated governance framework comparable to the ALPR policy.
Improve: Publish policy history/redlines and technology-specific policies for video integration, acoustic sensors, AI search, drones and other Safe City features.
Primary sourcePublic: MJPD describes sharing standards and publishes an access-agreement/transparency area.
Gap: No aggregate outside-agency query counts; no public inventory of integrated private/public video feeds; actual FlockOS network sharing and outside-jurisdiction video settings are not disclosed.
Improve: Publish sharing configuration, connected-feed inventory, agencies with access by data type, request/query counts and revocations.
Primary sourcePublic: Current policy contains detailed audit/logging requirements and says administrators audit every 30 days.
Gap: No recurring public monthly audit results or completed annual ALPR report was located in this review; the public cannot see audit sample size, exceptions, unauthorized use or corrective action.
Improve: Publish monthly aggregate audit metrics plus the annual report already contemplated by policy; add periodic independent audit.
Primary sourcePublic: MJPD publishes successful-interception examples and frequent public-safety announcements.
Gap: Success examples are agency-selected and do not provide a denominator for all alerts, searches, stops, false alerts or no-action outcomes.
Improve: Publish total alerts/searches/stops, verified hits, no-action outcomes, false/incorrect alerts, investigations assisted and disposition metrics.
Primary sourcePublic: Major contracts and Board votes are public records.
Gap: Product-level activation can occur under a broad Safe City agreement; major items have sometimes had little recorded public discussion; no clear public impact-review trigger for adding a new surveillance/data capability.
Improve: Require Board/public notice for major new data types, integrations, retention changes, AI features or sharing expansions and publish impact assessments.
Primary sourceProducts are categorized by evidence status so a contract feature is never presented as a confirmed local deployment.
| Product / system | Category | Evidence status | Quantity | What it does | Data | Retention | Third-party integration | Outside-agency capability | Actual Mt. Juliet sharing | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flock Safety LPR (formerly Falcon) Do not equate 73 public entries with 73 distinct physical Falcons until device inventory is obtained. | License plate recognition | Confirmed deployed Confirmed local deployment | 73 public location/direction entries; exact physical unit count unknown | Captures plate/vehicle images and supports hot-list alerts, historical searches and vehicle-description searches. | Images, license plates, vehicle characteristics, date/time/location | MJPD current policy: 21 days unless tied to an active investigation/case; 2025 order form states 30 days. | FlockOS supports community network access and broader LPR network sharing. | Contract includes state/nationwide plate lookup and direct-access requests to other law-enforcement devices. | MJPD publishes agencies with access agreements; exact query volume and network configuration are not public on the city page. | Open |
| Flock Safety Video Camera PTZ (formerly Condor) MJPD separately advertises a city-wide camera network, but that does not establish that every fixed camera is a Condor. | Live / recorded video | Contracted capability; deployment quantity not verified Product is in city Flock contract; exact deployment not verified | Unknown | Live-streamed pan/tilt/zoom video with edge storage and VMS. | Live and recorded video | Contract describes 30 days of edge storage. | Can appear with other video sources in FlockOS. | FlockOS contract feature set includes access to live/recorded video outside agency jurisdiction when enabled/shared. | Which Mt. Juliet Condor feeds, if any, are shared outside MJPD has not been publicly verified. | Open |
| City-wide fixed camera network Keep this inventory separate from ALPR so a park video camera is not accidentally counted as a Falcon. | Live / recorded video | Publicly announced; device inventory not published MJPD recruiting page confirms a “City-Wide Camera Network”; product models/locations incomplete | Unknown | Fixed public-safety video cameras across the city, including cameras observed/referenced at public facilities and parks. | Video | Varies by system; not established here. | Potentially integrable into FlockOS if connected through Flock video integration products. | Unknown for Mt. Juliet configuration. | Not publicly verified. | Open |
| Flock Safety Gunshot Detection (formerly Raven) Do not call every observed “listening device” a Raven without model/location confirmation. | Acoustic detection | Contracted capability; local activation not verified Included in Mt. Juliet Flock contract; deployment not independently confirmed | Unknown; contract licenses by coverage area, not unit count | Detects acoustic signatures associated with gunfire and generates location-based alerts. | Acoustic sensor events | Not established from the local order form excerpt. | FlockOS contract describes unified LPR, video and audio alerts. | Platform-level sharing/integration capabilities exist; local Raven-sharing configuration not verified. | Unknown. | Open |
| Acoustic car-crash detection Track separately from Raven gunshot detection unless the city confirms they use the same hardware. | Acoustic detection | Publicly announced as Safe City technology Public announcement; exact hardware/product configuration needs verification | Unknown | Acoustic detection associated with crash-response technology, as described by MJPD in its Safe City/Flock911 announcement. | Acoustic event detection | Unknown | Part of broader Safe City ecosystem as publicly described. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Open |
| Video Integration Gateway 2.0 (formerly Wing) This is the product most relevant to the question of tying city/local cameras into Flock. | Third-party camera integration | Contracted capability; activation not verified Capability explicitly in contract; local enablement/sharing unknown | Unknown | Connects existing third-party cameras/video systems to the Flock platform; local order form describes a 16-stream gateway with 16TB storage and 8-channel AI capability. | Third-party live/recorded video | Contract description states 30 days of storage for the gateway product. | Yes — core purpose is integrating non-Flock/public/private video feeds. | The same contracted FlockOS feature set says agencies can view shared live/recorded footage from neighboring agencies, schools, traffic cameras and third-party feeds. | No public evidence located establishing which Mt. Juliet integrated feeds are actually available to outside agencies. | Open |
| Community Network / private-camera partnerships A records request should ask for registered/integrated camera counts, MOUs, sharing settings and outside-agency access rules. | Public-private integration | Program capability publicly described; exact connected inventory unknown Current MJPD page + Flock contract capability | Unknown | Allows private Flock customers/partners to share footage or, under contracted FlockOS features, allows law enforcement to request access to privately owned Flock LPR feeds. | Private LPR/video feeds when owners opt in/share | Depends on source system and agreement. | Yes. | Potentially, depending on the owner’s sharing settings and law-enforcement network configuration. | MJPD says private customers cannot access law-enforcement data; exact downstream access to private feeds by outside agencies has not been publicly established. | Open |
| Flock Mobile Security Trailer Needs serial/model/site confirmation before adding a local quantity. | Mobile video / deterrence | Contracted capability; local Flock trailer deployment not verified Included in contract; do not equate every MJPD surveillance tower with this product | Unknown | Mobile trailer with deterrence light, two PTZ cameras, 360-degree multisensor camera and audio talk-down. | Video / audio talk-down | Not established separately in local contract description. | Integrated with Flock platform. | Depends on sharing configuration. | Unknown. | Open |
| FlockOS Premium The existence of a feature in FlockOS does not prove MJPD has enabled it. | Operations / data platform | Contracted Included in contract | Agency software platform | Central operational interface combining LPR, video, audio, maps, alerts, audits and integrations. | Aggregates data from connected systems | Depends on underlying data source/product. | Yes — contract lists public/private video, CAD, AVL, body-camera location and other integrations. | Yes at platform capability level, including law-enforcement network access and outside-jurisdiction video where enabled. | Mt. Juliet-specific settings are not fully public. | Open |
| Flock Nova — Customer Data / OSINT This is broader than ALPR and should have its own governance/records questions. | Data integration / intelligence | Contracted capability; usage not verified Included in contract | Software subscription capability | Centralizes agency CAD/RMS/digital evidence data and, separately, offers open-source intelligence/shared inter-agency data. | Agency records, dispatch, digital evidence, OSINT and shared data | Not established in local order-form description. | Yes. | Shared inter-agency data is part of the described capability. | Specific Mt. Juliet datasets and connections not publicly verified. | Open |
| FreeForm AI search Publicly verify whether enabled, who can use it, what query justifications are required, and whether its searches appear in audit logs. | AI / investigative search | Contracted capability; activation not verified Included in contract | Software add-on capability | Natural-language search across LPR images and video footage from FreeForm-enabled devices. | Searches LPR images/video metadata and imagery | Underlying source retention applies. | Can search enabled data sources in the platform. | Depends on data available to the user/account. | Unknown. | Open |
| Flock911 This is not an ALPR camera, but it demonstrates that the Safe City platform now extends well beyond plate readers. | 911 / real-time response | Confirmed deployed MJPD publicly announced deployment after testing | Agency-wide software integration; exact user count unknown | Delivers live 911 call information into FlockOS to provide real-time context to responding personnel. | 911 call audio/context/location information | Not established here. | Integrates 911/CAD context into FlockOS. | Not established for Mt. Juliet. | Unknown. | Open |
| Flock Aerodome Drone as First Responder City page says active-incident use, not random patrol, and promises a public flight transparency portal once launched. | Drone / aerial video | Confirmed implementation/testing Confirmed local DFR program | 2 strategically placed drone docks; city DFR page describes two operational coverage locations | Dispatches drones to active calls and transmits live aerial video to responders/command staff. | Live aerial video, telemetry, flight logs | Per DFR policy/portal; exact local retention should be tracked separately. | FlockOS contract integrates drone live video/GPS. | Assistance to other public-safety agencies is described; live feed sharing specifics should be verified. | Not fully documented on public page. | Open |
| Flock Aerodome DFR Radar The Flock drone contract also references radar and radio-frequency sensor data as Flock Drone IP. | Radar / airspace sensing | Confirmed implementation/testing Confirmed on city DFR page | 1 radar described as providing citywide coverage | Detect-and-avoid / airspace monitoring supporting beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone operations. | Radar and airspace sensor data | Not established on public program page. | Integrated with DFR platform. | Not relevant/unknown. | Unknown. | Open |
| Traffic Analytics This retention is for aggregate analytics and should not be confused with individual ALPR plate-read retention. | Traffic analytics | Contracted capability; activation not verified Included in contract | Software capability | Aggregates vehicle counts in 15-minute bins and supports breakdowns by class, state and make. | Aggregate vehicle-count analytics | Contract says aggregate counts may be hosted up to 5 years. | Part of Flock platform. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Open |
The ordering below is about durability and external constraint, not a complete legal hierarchy. Federal/constitutional law can also control. This is a transparency framework, not legal advice.
Main protection: Government-captured plate data may not generally be stored more than 90 days unless part of an ongoing investigation, with additional destruction rules.
How it changes: Requires state legislative/legal change, subject to controlling federal/constitutional law.
If violated: Binding law; legal consequences are determined through applicable civil/criminal/judicial processes, not merely department discipline.
MJPD chooses a stricter 21-day limit by policy; city ordinance is stricter than state maximum at 30 days. State law is an external floor/ceiling applicable to the city; it does not prevent Mt. Juliet from adopting stronger local restrictions where lawful.
Read sourceMain protection: Restricts public inspection of captured plate data.
How it changes: State legislative change. Public Chapter 672 (2026) removed the scheduled sunset of this confidentiality provision.
If violated: Captured plate data is treated as confidential and not open for general public inspection under the public-records statute.
Limits what citizens can obtain directly, which makes aggregate audit/public reporting more important for external verification. The confidentiality rule protects plate data but also limits public ability to independently inspect individual reads.
Read sourceMain protection: 30-day city retention cap (subject to investigation exception), no unmanned traffic enforcement, restrictions on non-governmental disclosure, and public listing of automatically shared governmental agencies.
How it changes: Board action is required to amend/repeal an ordinance.
If violated: City law rather than an internal police procedure.
More durable than a police general order, but it does not contain all of the detailed audit/query controls in the current police policy. The ordinance preamble expressly contemplated privacy and abuse risks when the city adopted ALPR rules in 2019.
Read sourceMain protection: Defines purchased products, services and some retention/product terms; the 2025 order form states a 30-day retention period.
How it changes: Contract amendment/renewal and whatever city approvals are legally or administratively required.
If violated: Creates contractual rights/obligations between the parties; not the same thing as a public criminal or civil statute governing officers.
Current MJPD ALPR policy says 21 days; the actual configured setting should be verified and the contract/policy difference reconciled. The contract is also important because it reveals capabilities not obvious from the Guardian Shield ALPR webpage.
Read sourceMain protection: 21-day retention, individual accounts, legitimate-purpose/query justification, case/call information, audit logging, 30-day administrator audits, monthly records and annual reporting requirements.
How it changes: Departmental policy amendment; current document directs readers to PowerDMS for the most recent version.
If violated: The policy expressly says violations of the General Order form the basis for departmental administrative sanctions; violations of law are handled separately in a judicial setting.
Detailed safeguards are useful, but they are less externally durable than ordinance/state law and require public audit results to verify operation. This is why the site separates “strong policy on paper” from “binding external rule” and from proof that the control is actually operating.
Read sourceMain protection: States 21-day retention, trained/authorized access, logging/auditing, controlled data sharing, no current federal sharing and other privacy assurances.
How it changes: Administrative website update; no ordinance vote required.
If violated: Useful evidence of what the department represents to residents, but not itself a substitute for law, ordinance, contract, or policy.
The site can compare each statement with published records and mark what remains independently unverifiable. Public claims should be preserved with dates because webpage language can change.
Read sourceThe current city webpage contains 73 active location/direction entries. This site deliberately does not call that 73 physical cameras until the city’s device inventory is obtained.
| # | Public location entry | Direction | Status | Physical camera/group | Last verified | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | E Division St WB @ Golden Bear Gtwy | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 2 | East Division St @ Ramp to Golden Bear Gtwy SB | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 3 | Pleasant Grove Rd @ Triple Crowne Pkwy - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 4 | Pleasant Grove Rd @ Triple Crowne Pkwy - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 5 | Lebanon Rd @ Pin Oak Dr EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 6 | Providence Pkwy @ S Mount Juliet Rd - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 7 | S Mount Juliet Rd @ Crossings Circle - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 8 | S Mount Juliet Rd @ Providence Way/Belinda – EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 9 | Pleasant Grove Rd @ Old Pleasant Grove Rd - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 10 | Old Lebanon Dirt Rd @ Cobbleston Landing EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 11 | Central Pike WB @ Walton's Grove Subdivision / Westbound | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 12 | South Mt. Juliet Rd SB @ Central Pike / South Bound | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 13 | Central Pike EB @ Mt Juliet | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 14 | Central Pike NB @ Adams Lane | NB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 15 | North Mt. Juliet Rd NB @ Pleasant Grove / Northbound | NB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 16 | North Mt. Juliet Rd. SB @ Pleasant Grove / South Bound | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 17 | Central Pk EB from S MJ Rd | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 18 | North Mt. Juliet Rd. SB @ Hwy 70 / South Bound | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 19 | Hwy 70 EB @ North Mt. Juliet Rd. / Eastbound | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 20 | Hwy 70 WB @ North Mt. Juliet Rd / West Bound | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 21 | Robinson Park Trailhead - Inbound | Inbound | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 22 | Mundy Park - Inbound | Inbound | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 23 | Beckwith Rd @ Wilfong Pkwy - SB | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 24 | Grace Road- Bradshaw Farms Trailhead - Inbound | Inbound | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 25 | Mt. Juliet Soccer Park Trailhead - Inbound | Inbound | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 26 | Ethan Page Park Trailhead - Inbound | Inbound | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 27 | Cedar Creek Greenway - Inbound | Inbound | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 28 | Belinda Pkwy EB @ Providence Trail - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 29 | South Rutland Rd @ Baird Farms Construction Entrance - NB | Entrance | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 30 | Providence Pkwy @ Central Pike - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 31 | N Mt Juliet Rd @ Division St - NB | NB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 32 | Nonaville Rd SB @ Saundersville Rd - SB | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 33 | South Green Hill NB @ West Division St - NB | NB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 34 | Lebanon Rd @ Terrace Hill Rd WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 35 | Lebanon Rd E of Curd Rd EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 36 | Old Lebanon Dirt Rd @ N Mt Juliet Rd - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 37 | Providence Way @ S Mount Juliet Rd - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 38 | N Mount Juliet Rd @ E Division St - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 39 | Old Lebanon Dirt Rd @ N Mt Juliet Rd - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 40 | Old Lebanon Dirt Rd @ Davidson County Line - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 41 | Golden Bear Gtwy @ Vanner Rd - NB | NB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 42 | Charlie Daniels Park - Inbound | Inbound | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 43 | Golden Bear Gtwy @ Hwy 70 - SB | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 44 | West Division St @ Davidson County Line - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 45 | Del Web Blvd @ S Rutland Rd - Exit | Exit | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 46 | Providence Pkwy @ Central Pike - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 47 | Del Web Blvd @ S Rutland Rd - Entrance | Entrance | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 48 | Old Pleasant Grove Rd @ Pleasant Grove Pl - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 49 | Pleasant Grove Rd @ WalMart - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 50 | Providence Pkwy @ Providence Trl - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 51 | S Rutland Rd @ Beckwith Rd - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 52 | Golden Bear Gateway @ Vanner Rd - SB | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 53 | Lebanon Rd @ Nonaville Rd - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 54 | Belinda Pkwy @ Providence Trl - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 55 | Leesa Ann Ln @ Darrington Way - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 56 | Old Lebanon Dirt Rd @ Kelsey Glen Dr - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 57 | Pleasant Grove Rd @ Old Pleasant Grove Rd - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 58 | Golden Bear Gateway @ I 40 On Ramp - SB (Covers WB Ramp) | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 59 | Belinda Pkwy EB @ I-40 Ramp - EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 60 | Beckwith Rd @ Summit Blvd - NB | NB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 61 | Golden Bear Gtwy @ Beckwith Rd - NB | NB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 62 | North Mt. Juliet Rd. NB @ I-40 / Northbound | NB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 63 | I-40 On-Ramps @ North Mt. Juliet Rd / Westbound | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 64 | North Mt. Juliet Rd SB @ Division St. / South Bound | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 65 | Hwy 70 WB @ Davidson County Line / Westbound | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 66 | Hwy 70 EB @ Davidson County Line / Eastbound | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 67 | Pleasant Grove Rd @ WalMart - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 68 | South Mt. Juliet Rd. @ I-40 / Southbound on Mt. Juliet Rd @ I-40 | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 69 | South Mt. Juliet Rd NB @ Central Pike / North Bound | NB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 70 | South Mt. Juliet Rd. @ I-40 / I-40 Eastbound On-Ramp | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 71 | Lebanon Rd @ S Greenhill Rd EB | EB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 72 | Lebanon Rd @ S Greenhill Rd SB | SB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
| 73 | Lebanon Rd @ Sunset Dr - WB | WB | Active on city webpage | Unknown | 2026-08-06 | City list |
Track actual spending, annual costs and long-term commitments separately.
Year 1
First scheduled invoice under the expanded agreement.
View source10-year payment schedule
The order form contains a separate cover-page total of $6,950,300; this discrepancy should be reconciled.
View sourceApproximate annual cost announced during selection
MJPD described cost as near $89,000 per year pending final negotiations.
View sourceFY 2019–20
MJPD later reported that $100,000 had been allocated for the fiscal year.
View sourceImplementation, vendor changes, votes, policy amendments, network growth and whether citizen comment was located.
MJPD later reported that the city had allocated $100,000 for the fiscal year and that police and IT personnel began evaluating ALPR technology.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
Ordinance process followed in August–September 2019.
SourceOrdinance 2019-40 received its first reading. It was designed to limit ALPR uses and provide public transparency.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
Proposed restrictions included retention limits, no unmanned traffic enforcement, restrictions on nongovernmental disclosure, and publication of automatically shared governmental agencies.
SourceThe Board gave final passage to the city's ALPR ordinance, which was signed by then-Mayor Ed Hagerty.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
Thirty-day city retention ceiling, no automated traffic enforcement, no sale/provision to nongovernmental entities except as authorized by law, and website listing of agencies receiving automatic sharing.
SourceThe city released a request for proposals after testing one ALPR site for about 60 days. MJPD identified 37 proposed fixed-camera locations.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
Thirty-day internal retention was described, although state law allowed up to 90 days.
SourceAfter testing and review, the city and MJPD announced Rekor Systems as the selected ALPR vendor.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
Images described as retained for 30 days.
SourceGeneral Order 10D.6 lists an original issue date of February 24, 2020. The currently posted copy was later amended and now references Flock.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
The current copy contains access, justification, logging, auditing, retention, sharing, and public-reporting rules; those provisions cannot all be assumed to have existed unchanged in 2020.
SourceMJPD later identified April 1, 2020 as the start of the Guardian Shield program.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
Thirty-day retention was publicly described at launch.
SourceMJPD reported that Guardian Shield had surpassed 100 successful interceptions since its April 2020 start.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
Operational-success reporting; no audit or misuse statistics were included in this announcement.
SourceLater city records identify Resolution 67-2024 as an earlier authorization for the transition to Flock. A November 2024 report also described commissioners approving a Flock contract.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
Later March 2025 records call Flock the new LPR vendor and describe approvals for transition.
SourceResolution 31-2025 authorized the mayor to sign an agreement with Flock for the license-plate-reader program.
Yes: Art Giles; Bill Trivett; James Maness; Jennifer Milele; Scott Hefner
No: None recorded
Citizen comments: No citizen comments recorded in the reviewed meeting minutes.
Written comments: Not determined.
Agreement and transition documents were attached to the agenda item.
SourceResolution 50-2025 authorized a modified Flock agreement that consolidated services and expanded the platform beyond ALPR.
Yes: Art Giles; Bill Trivett; James Maness; Jennifer Milele; Scott Hefner
No: None recorded
Citizen comments: Many citizens spoke on other topics; no Flock/ALPR comment was identified in the recorded citizen-comment summaries.
Written comments: Minutes note citizen/business emails were distributed to commissioners, but topics were not identified as Flock-related.
The order form lists a 30-day retention period. The current MJPD policy states 21 days, creating a contract-policy point that should be reconciled publicly.
SourceThe order form scheduled the first $185,000 invoice for July 1, 2025 and prohibited installation before that date.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
Contracted products and actual deployed products should be tracked separately.
SourceMJPD announced Flock911, which delivers real-time 911 information to officers, and stated that its Flock Safe City designation provides ongoing automatic upgrades to the wider Flock suite.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
The website timeline should distinguish council-approved contract authority from later administrative activation of individual products.
SourceThe currently posted General Order 10D.6 is marked amended June 15, 2026.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
Current policy calls for 30-day system audits, monthly records, annual public reporting, and 21-day retention.
SourceThe current Guardian Shield page lists 73 active ALPR location/direction entries, compared with 37 proposed locations in November 2019.
Citizen comments: Not yet determined.
Written comments: Not yet determined.
The current policy requires annual reporting of camera totals, but the historical expansion path is not evident from one consolidated public timeline.
SourceCatalog police releases, Facebook posts, news articles and records with a precise description of ALPR’s role.
Result: Missing person located and welfare checked; passenger with warrants transported to jail.
What the source says: MJPD says Flock cameras alerted officers to the missing-person vehicle.
Entered from MJPD public successful-interceptions spreadsheet; underlying case report not yet reviewed.
Open sourceResult: Vehicle stopped; suspect detained and transported to Wilson County Jail.
What the source says: A locally created investigative alert in Flock triggered the response.
Useful example of a locally created investigative alert rather than an automatic stolen-vehicle hit.
Open sourceResult: Wanted suspect detained; other passengers also arrested for separate warrants/drug charges.
What the source says: MJPD says Flock generated an alert from a locally added investigative entry.
Underlying incident report not yet reviewed.
Open sourceResult: MJPD attempted a stop; vehicle fled; surrounding agencies later located it and two people were arrested.
What the source says: MJPD says Guardian Shield alerted officers to the stolen car entering Mt. Juliet.
Shows an ALPR alert beginning a multi-agency response even when MJPD did not complete the initial stop.
Open sourceThe goal is not to assume a claim is false. It is to identify the records that would demonstrate the safeguard is operating as described.
Current public Guardian Shield page states 21 days; city ordinance allows up to 30 days.
Policy/public page describes logging and audits; aggregate audit results are needed to verify scope, frequency, findings, and follow-up.
Public policy states restricted access. Current counts of users by role are not shown on the public page.
Individual cameras create point-in-time vehicle observations. Practical movement reconstruction depends on network density, retained history, search features, and shared cameras.
City publishes agencies with access agreements; aggregate access frequency and outside-agency query counts are not on the public page.
The policy states the requirement. Audit results can show whether case/call numbers and reasons are actually present and valid.
No aggregate audit report has been entered yet.
Policies, ordinances, contracts, invoices, minutes, posts, reporting, laws and open-records responses.
| Date | Type | Title | Publisher | Summary | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-09 | Ordinance | Ordinance 2019-40 — ALPR regulation | Mt. Juliet Board of Commissioners | City ordinance addressing retention, automated traffic enforcement, disclosure, and automatic sharing. | Open |
| 2026-06-15 | Police policy | MJPD General Order 10D.6 — Automated License Plate Recognition Program | Mt. Juliet Police Department | Current amended policy covering use, query justification, audit trail, retention, audits, sharing, and reporting. | Open |
| 2025-06-09 | Contract | Flock Safe City order form | Mt. Juliet / Flock Safety | Ten-year Safe City agreement and payment schedule. | Open |
| 2025-06-09 | Meeting minutes | Board minutes — Resolution 50-2025 | Mt. Juliet Board of Commissioners | Published minutes showing unanimous approval of modified Flock Safe City agreement. | Open |
| 2025-06-02 | Contract | Flock Safety Safe City order form — product and feature descriptions | City of Mt. Juliet / Flock Safety | Lists Falcon LPR, Condor PTZ, Raven gunshot detection, mobile trailers, FlockOS/Nova/FreeForm, video integration/Wing, Flock911, traffic analytics, DFR drones/radar and network/video-integration capabilities. | Open |
| 2026-08-06 | City webpage | MJPD Drone as a First Responder program page | Mt. Juliet Police Department | Public program details including implementation/testing status, two strategically placed drone docks, one radar with citywide coverage and promised flight transparency portal. | Open |
| 2026-08-06 | City webpage | MJPD recruiting page — Safe City, city-wide LPR and camera networks | Mt. Juliet Police Department | MJPD publicly describes an advanced Flock Safe City program, funded DFR program, city-wide LPR network and city-wide camera network. | Open |
| 2026-04-07 | State law | Tennessee Public Chapter 672 / SB1879 — ALPR captured-data confidentiality sunset removed | Tennessee General Assembly | Removes the scheduled sunset of the Tennessee public-records confidentiality provision for captured ALPR data. | Open |
This is an independent public-source transparency project, not an official city website. It catalogs what Mt. Juliet and other sources publicly state, the records supporting those statements, and gaps where additional documentation would be useful.
Evidence discipline: “contracted capability” is not “deployed”; “city-listed ALPR location” is not automatically one physical camera; and “police policy” is not the same as a city ordinance or state statute. The transparency score measures public verifiability only.
Use-log limitation: a curated list of posts is not a statistical sample of all police stops or arrests. Do not calculate the percentage of arrests caused by ALPR unless a complete official denominator is obtained.