Drone as a First Responder
Mt. Juliet Police Department
Official page describing the local DFR program.
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Facebook comment by WCS District Zone 4 Joseph Padilla regarding Green Hill High School LPR pilot
WCS District Zone 4 Joseph Padilla · WCS District Zone 4
Facebook group comment by Joseph Padilla concerning the later status and reported technical problems of the Green Hill High School LPR project. A direct comment permalink is available, but the Facebook group may require membership to view; the URL should not be treated as universally accessible. The source title is descriptive because the comment itself has no published title.
Flock AI video analytics — Guardian Mode and People Detection Alerts
Flock Safety
Vendor description of available video analytics capabilities; not evidence of local deployment or use.
Flock Condor video-camera product page
Flock Safety
Vendor product page; not evidence of local deployment or use.
Flock FreeForm product page
Flock Safety
Vendor product page; not evidence of local enablement or use.
Flock Safety Safe City order form and agreement
City of Mt. Juliet and Flock Safety
Continuing source identity for the Safe City agreement, including the superseded June order form and corrected second modification; individual version records identify the applicable document and URL.
Flock Surveillance Map — archived Flock device dataset
Joshua Michael / FlockSurveillance.org
Independent archive and presentation of Flock Safety ArcGIS device records from a publicly accessible endpoint. It is used here as provenance for a locally derived Mt. Juliet extract; the three cleaned Mt. Juliet CSVs are Behind the Shield MJ artifacts, not files published by FlockSurveillance.org. It is not an official Flock Safety inventory, and upstream plotted coordinates do not necessarily identify physical camera locations.
Flock Updates Privacy, Accountability, Security, and Transparency Safeguards
Flock Safety
Dated vendor announcement changing Flock's recommended/default ALPR retention from 30 days to 7 days while preserving existing customer settings unless customers adopt the recommendation.
Flock Wing Gateway 2.0 announcement
Flock Safety
Vendor description of third-party video integration and analytics capability; not evidence of local deployment or use.
FlockOS Premium Statement of Work for Mt. Juliet PD
City of Mt. Juliet and Flock Safety
Statement of Work in the Legistar file 1274 contract package; establishes contracted implementation scope, not completed deployment.
Guardian Shield License Plate Reader Program
Mt. Juliet Police Department
Official public program page, safeguards, claims, and location listing.
Join Mt. Juliet Police Department
Mt. Juliet Police Department
Recruiting page that describes city-wide technology networks.
MJPD ALPR proposal and potential locations
Mt. Juliet Police Department
Official November 2019 proposal announcement and initial location list.
MJPD Flock911 and Safe City announcement
Mt. Juliet Police Department
Official announcement describing Flock911 and broader Safe City upgrades.
MJPD General Order 10D.6 — Automated License Plate Recognition Program
Mt. Juliet Police Department · Tyler Chandler, Chief of Police
Continuing publication identity for MJPD's ALPR general order.
MJPD Guardian Shield documented-use spreadsheet
Mt. Juliet Police Department
Public spreadsheet cited for documented Guardian Shield uses.
MJPD News Guardian Shield archive
Mt. Juliet Police Department
Category archive containing Guardian Shield announcements and use reports.
Mt. Juliet Board minutes — July 28, 2025
Mt. Juliet Board of Commissioners
Published meeting minutes recording adoption of the second modified Flock agreement as Resolution 61-2025.
Mt. Juliet Board minutes — June 9, 2025
Mt. Juliet Board of Commissioners
Published meeting minutes recording action on Resolution 50-2025.
Mt. Juliet Flock transition authorization attachment
City of Mt. Juliet
Agenda attachment cited for the 2024 authorization and March 2025 transition vote.
Mt. Juliet Ordinance 2019-40
Mt. Juliet Board of Commissioners
City ordinance regulating the local ALPR program.
Rekor selected for Guardian Shield
Mt. Juliet Police Department
Official January 2020 vendor-selection announcement.
Tennessee Code § 55-10-302 — ALPR retention
Justia · Tennessee General Assembly
Continuing publication identity for the Tennessee ALPR retention statute.
Tennessee SB1879 / Public Chapter 672 — ALPR confidentiality
Tennessee General Assembly
Legislative record concerning the captured-ALPR-data confidentiality sunset.
Wilson County to expand license plate reader's to Green Hill High School
WSMV 4
April 28, 2025 WSMV report documenting Wilson County Schools' Green Hill High School LPR pilot. The report states that three existing exterior cameras were activated as license plate readers through a pilot approved by the Wilson County School Board on April 24, 2025, and that resulting data was accessible to the Wilson County Sheriff's Office. https://www.wsmv.com