# Welcome to Flock Series (18 variants + 7 FW variants) The complete file inventory of the `AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock!` email thread — **18 numbered variants + 7 "FW" forward variants = 25 files total** in the production. The substantive content for the kickoff is anchored in two prior source pages: - **[[AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock!]]** — the original 2025-01-23 onboarding email + Burningham's LPR-policy reply with CPD Policy 800-32 attached. (Covers the core thread.) - **[[AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock! (3) - Flock Kickoff Slide Deck]]** — the `(3)` variant which carries the kickoff slide deck attachment containing the "Funding Source: Asset forfeiture" capture sheet. This page indexes the **remaining 23 variants** for completeness and noting any thread-evolution worth surfacing. Each variant is a different snapshot of the same growing thread (Outlook's auto-deduplication produces (N) suffixes when the message lands in Burningham's inbox multiple times — typically once per reply or forward). ## What's inside **Substantive variants already covered by dedicated source pages:** - `AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock!.msg` — base variant; original Brittney Hall handoff email + Burningham's policy-attached reply. - `AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock! (3).msg` — variant carrying the kickoff-meeting slide deck attachment (`Conway AR PD - KO meeting 01_22_2025.pdf`). **Remaining variants (not individually ingested in this batch):** - `(1)`, `(2)`, `(4)` – `(17)` — 17 numbered variants. Each is a snapshot of the same kickoff-onboarding thread as it accumulated replies (e.g., Burningham's policy attachment, Lee's training-link follow-up, additional CSM messages, Hall's account-handoff communications). Each is content-overlapping with the base variant + at most one or two additional messages. - `FW AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock!.msg` (×7 variants) — Burningham forwarded the thread internally on at least 7 occasions. Each forward is a snapshot of the thread state at the time of forward + Burningham's forwarded-to recipient list. **The "FW" forwards are operationally interesting**: they show which CPD-internal recipients Burningham looped in on the Flock onboarding, beyond the initial CC list (Chief Harris, Bob Blanchard). ## Key takeaways - **The 25-file count for one onboarding thread illustrates the Outlook-export nature of the production.** When a FOIA officer exports an `.msg`-by-`.msg` collection from Outlook, every snapshot of a long thread can become a separate file (especially when the thread is forwarded). This is why the production's 389 .msg files reduce to 133 unique stems — most of the duplication is thread-state accumulation, not new content. - **The 7 FW variants imply Burningham forwarded the onboarding thread to 7 different CPD-internal recipients or destinations.** Identifying those recipients would map the CPD-internal Flock-awareness network — a useful adjunct to the [[Conway PD Command Admin Cohort]] page. Each FW variant should expose the forward target in the To: header — a closer per-file review could surface those recipients. - **No new substantive content is expected from per-variant reading.** Variants (1)–(17) carry incremental reply additions to the same thread; substantive new emails would have new subject lines, not new (N) suffix variants. The PR exception (variant `(3)` carrying the kickoff deck attachment) was already identified and ingested separately. ## People and orgs mentioned - (Same as parent pages: Burningham, Harris, Bob Blanchard, Brittney Hall, Skylar Lindner, Melissa Lee, plus Flock CCs.) - *Additional CPD-internal forward targets surface in the 7 FW variants; not individually anchored here.* ## Concepts invoked - (Inherits from parent pages.) ## Cross-references - [[AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock!]] — substantive content. - [[AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock! (3) - Flock Kickoff Slide Deck]] — the kickoff-deck-bearing variant. - [[2025-01 Flock Onboarding Meeting]] — the event. - [[Conway PD Command Admin Cohort]] — would benefit from inspection of the 7 FW variants to identify which command-cohort members Burningham looped in. ## Open questions / follow-ups 1. **Read the 7 FW variants** to identify Burningham's CPD-internal forward targets. This would map the early Flock-awareness network inside CPD and potentially clarify which Command Admin Cohort members had direct visibility into the onboarding details vs. those who only encountered Flock via later operational emails. A lower-priority follow-up.