- Camera takes picture

- Camera pre-checks the picture for quality and that there's something on there that they want

- Camera uploads picture to flock servers

- Camera deletes picture locally

- Rinse and repeat

I could actually see this being done by three jobs in parallel.

If there are a lot of images found on the camera then that's probably because the upload wasn't able to keep up with the amount of data that was created or they have a buffer of a few days or there's a cronjob that deletes these files every now and then...

Unless they actually use the camera also as the storage, which would be really stupid, but sometimes people to stupid things.

It sounds like this whole thing is just in violation of New Hampshire state law.