# Rick Smith The **Founder and Chief Executive Officer of [[Axon Enterprise, Inc.]]** Smith appears in the corpus once — as the author of a February 2025 customer broadcast announcing that Axon had terminated its integration partnership with [[Flock Safety, Inc.]], the document that frames the Axon–Flock vendor feud running beneath the [[Fayetteville Police Department]]'s ALPR decision. ## Role and affiliations - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, [[Axon Enterprise, Inc.]]. ## Appearances in the corpus - [[Axon RTCC and Surveillance Ecosystem Pitch]] — authored a 2025-02-03 customer broadcast, "Response to Flock Communication of January 31, 2025," retained in FPD's records, stating that Axon had ended its partnership with Flock and alleging that Flock charged "excessive fees for API integrations between Flock and Axon systems ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 per year" and refused to allow Axon Fusus customers ALPR-search integration from their own Flock cameras. ## Notes - Smith is the only vendor chief executive named in the corpus. His letter is the documentary anchor for the vendor interoperability dispute discussed in [[Competing ALPR Vendors and the Real-Time Crime Center]].