# Flock Network Sharing / Hot Lists The umbrella concept for **all data-flow mechanisms Flock's platform enables across organizational boundaries**. Encompasses (a) network sharing — granting another org search access to your camera reads; (b) hot list sharing — pushing a custom plate-of-interest list to another org's alert feed; (c) federal-prefix sharing — the special case of federal-LE access via the `[Federal]` org convention. The Conway production documents all three at scale. ## How it appears in the corpus - **[[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]]** — 1,384 organizations in Conway's sharing topology as of 12/17/2025. Bidirectional: 486. Inbound-only: 471. Outbound-only: 427. Geographic spread across 38+ states. - **[[Escambia County FL SO Hot List Share]]** — A custom hot list pushed from Florida to Conway via the platform alone (no MOU, no countersignature). - **[[Home Depot Camera Sharing Series]]** — A corporate-coordinated, state-wide rollout of private-business camera sharing into Arkansas LE agencies, executed in spring 2026 across six Conway-area stores (more nationally). - **[[Federal Searches CSV]]** — 5,929 federal-LE lookups against Conway's data in March–April 2026. - The **"Flock Network Sharing Tool" PDF series** (`pg1`, `pg2`, `pg3`, `pg5`, `7`, `8`, `9`, `11`, `13` files in the production) is the vendor's customer-facing documentation of the sharing UI — captures the admin-UI workflow agencies use to configure sharing. Per-file ingest deferred to second pass. - **[[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report]]** — the activity-side data for the [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]] Flock deployment. Of 2,092 alerts in Jan 1 – May 19 2026, **1,645 (79%)** came from "Other Custom Hotlist Alerts on Your Networks" — alerts triggered by custom hot lists other agencies own and share into PCSO's networks. PCSO is itself enumerated in Conway PD's [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] (row 279); the two productions describe the same network from two operating ends. ## Stakeholders - **Agency administrators** — toggle relationships in the platform admin UI. At Conway, this is overwhelmingly [[Lt. Andrew Burningham]] (330 of 389 .msg headers per [[2026-05 Bounce-Scope Diagnostic]]). - **Counterparty administrators** — toggle on their end. - **Flock** — defines the abstraction (network, hot list, federal prefix) and operates the platform infrastructure. ## Timeline The Conway-specific sharing arrangements develop over the deployment's lifetime; the [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] is the only point-in-time view available. Notable events: - 2025-01-23 — Project kickoff; "Faulkner Co Emergency Comms Center - might give them access" candidate noted in [[AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock! (3) - Flock Kickoff Slide Deck]]. - 2025-12-17 — SharedNetworks snapshot generated. - 2026-01-22 — [[Escambia County FL SO Hot List Share]] notification. - 2026-03-12 — Home Depot state-wide rollout announcement. - 2026-03-12 → 2026-04-08 — Six Home Depot store shares completed for Conway. ## Notes - The vocabulary distinction matters: - **Network sharing** = peer access to another agency's *search index* (you can run queries that touch their reads). - **Hot list sharing** = peer subscription to another agency's *alerts* (their plates of interest cause your cameras to alert). - **Federal-prefix sharing** = a relationship configured under Flock's `[Federal]` org naming convention, exposed to federal-officer logins on a national scope. - The corpus does not surface any per-relationship MOU, warrant, or even agency-leadership notification email. The relationships are administrative toggles. - The single fact that **a configured relationship enables thousands of cross-jurisdictional queries per month** without any per-query process is the central policy-design finding of the investigation.