# Home Depot Camera Sharing Series The documentary evidence of **The Home Depot's company-coordinated, state-wide rollout of Flock-camera data-sharing with Arkansas LE agencies**, executed in spring 2026. One announcement email from Flock to Chief Harris on **2026-03-12**, followed by six store-level share-grant notifications across **2026-03-12 → 2026-04-08** corresponding to Home Depot stores 1401, 1402, 1405, 1407, 1412, and 8919 in Arkansas. Conway PD was an enrolled recipient agency. This series, together with the [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]], is the principal evidence of the **private-business-into-LE camera-sharing pattern** the investigation is documenting. ## What's inside **Announcement email (2026-03-12, Danica Pierce, Flock Onboarding Specialist → Chris Harris, cc Burningham):** > "We are assisting in a process, in coordination with The Home Depot (THD), to provide agencies with state access to THD cameras for both search and hotlist capabilities as a part of their rollout. Please be patient with Flock as we anticipate a large volume of requests over the next couple of weeks. The camera share process is manual on the Flock side and once approved we will do our best to complete these in a timely manner." > > [Template language Home Depot is using to describe the arrangement:] > "The Home Depot would like to provide your agency with state-wide access to The Home Depot owned Flock safety systems. This technology will assist in preventing or investigating criminal activity in the local community we both serve. The Home Depot technology and your department's access to such should only be used for bona fide investigations, which are documented within your department and via audit trail within the Flock Safety platform. These investigative tools and technology will not be permitted for personal use, for use on unauthorized devices or by unauthorized users within your department. I understand if the technology is not used correctly, The Home Depot reserves the right to terminate the department's access to The Home Depot owned Flock safety systems." **Six store-level share-grant notifications** (auto-sent by Flock's `[email protected]` to Burningham), each carrying a one-paragraph "New Flock Cameras Shared" body and admin-UI instructions for adding the network to internal roles. Example (Home Depot — #1405, 2026-04-08): > "Great News! Home Depot - #1405 (AR) has just shared their cameras with Conway AR PD, granting you and your organization the ability to search footage from their Flock Safety cameras." ## Key takeaways - **The Home Depot's data-sharing posture is corporate-coordinated, not store-discretionary.** The announcement from Flock describes the arrangement as a "process, in coordination with The Home Depot (THD)" with state-wide rollout. Individual Home Depot store managers are not initiating these shares; corporate THD is, with Flock as the operational executor. - **"State access" — Arkansas-wide.** THD is sharing all its AR-store Flock cameras with "agencies" (plural — not Conway alone). The six store IDs visible in Conway's inbox (1401, 1402, 1405, 1407, 1412, 8919) are the AR stores that completed the share to Conway. Some of the 471 inbound-only relationships in [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] are likely additional Home Depot AR stores; total AR Home Depot count is not visible in the corpus. - **THD's contractual posture is template-language only.** The "I understand if the technology is not used correctly" sentence is third-person template phrasing — there is no per-store, per-agency MOU. The terms are "bona fide investigations, … documented within your department and via audit trail within the Flock Safety platform." The audit-log series ([[Conway PD Audit Logs Series]]) is therefore the *only* documentary check Home Depot has on whether its cameras are being used as the template specifies. - **No MOU / contract / signature.** No formal agreement is signed between Conway PD and Home Depot at any level visible in the corpus. The arrangement is a Flock-platform-mediated relationship governed by a template paragraph that no party signs. - **"The camera share process is manual on the Flock side"** — Flock acknowledges the volume and the manual processing. This is the connective tissue: corporate THD asks Flock; Flock asks agencies; agencies receive auto-notifications; everything is mediated by Flock's platform admin UI. - **Volume implication.** If Conway received six AR Home Depots in a ~one-month window, the state-wide rollout volume is likely in the dozens of stores per state across THD's national footprint. The corpus does not surface the total store count or the rollout's national scope. - **Burningham as the per-agency anchor.** Every store-level notification is sent to Burningham at the same email address that anchors the contract, the past-due invoice forwarding, and the Flock administration. The privately-shared camera footage is administratively concentrated in one CPD lieutenant's email — and presumably in his Flock-admin account. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Chris Harris]] — recipient of the 2026-03-12 corporate announcement. - [[Lt. Andrew Burningham]] — cc on the announcement; recipient of every store-level grant notification. - [[Danica Pierce]] — Flock Onboarding Specialist; sender of the corporate-coordination announcement. - [[Flock Safety, Inc.]] — platform-side coordinator. - [[The Home Depot, Inc.]] — corporate initiator of the state-wide data-sharing rollout. - Home Depot — #1401, #1402, #1405, #1407, #1412, #8919 (AR) — store-level entities. Standalone entity pages deferred until additional context surfaces; for now, all six anchor here. ## Concepts invoked - [[Private-Business Camera Sharing into LE Networks]] - [[Flock Network Sharing - Hot Lists]] - [[Surveillance Data Sharing — Default-On Posture]] ## Events documented - [[2026-03 Home Depot State-Wide Camera Share Announcement]] — 2026-03-12. - *Six individual share-completion events 2026-03 → 2026-04 (aggregated under the series page).* ## Cross-references - [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] — would have surfaced these store-level relationships had the snapshot been refreshed in 2026-04; as of 2025-12-17 the THD rollout had not yet occurred. - [[Flock Cameras Apr 2026 City Council QA Thread]] — Burningham's April 2026 email to Flock asking about Home Depot camera access is part of this same data-sharing concern. - [[Conway PD Audit Logs Series]] — the only documentary check on whether Conway officers are using Home Depot cameras as the template specifies. ## Open questions / follow-ups 1. **National scope.** How many Home Depot stores nationwide are in the rollout? Flock would have the answer; the corpus does not. An open question for external investigation. 2. **Reciprocal sharing?** Does Conway PD share its own camera data with The Home Depot (Loss Prevention)? The [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] does not list any THD entity in the "Networks I'm Sharing" column — but the snapshot predates the rollout. A refreshed snapshot is the question. 3. **Other private-business categories.** Are big-box retailers (Walmart, Target, etc.), banks, HOAs, or hospital systems running similar rollouts? An open question for external investigation. 4. **Bona fide investigations check.** Audit-log analytics: of Conway officer searches against THD networks, what fraction carry a `Reason` field that satisfies "bona fide investigations" language? This would be the operational check on the template-language compliance.