preemptively: yes I fucking know they don't care this is for my autism. this is such a trivial fucking win for flock to integrate with Jira or similar (because why wouldn't cops use jira? they're constantly writing tickets) so that the valid provenance must be present for the footage to be released; that way you can use Jira's stats and other management functions to audit usage. https://www.404media.co/cops-search-thousands-of-flock-cameras-for-reasons-of-lmao-idk-hehe-and-asdfg/