My "supposedly" is based on previous Flock events where reporting found out how many searches matched data in their city's jurisdiction. Flock's PR statement was that "this is what the city's account settings allowed, save for one jurisdiction which was configured in the wrong state".

It's quite possible that Flock has different sales contracts, so if a city manager (or whomever signs those contracts) doesn't have a lawyer review the contract or if neither the manager nor lawyer consider data sharing with the Feds to be a concern, then of course my assumptions are off.

But Flock's current PR cycle pins all of the blame for too much data sharing on the customer's permissions settings.