Minneapolis Police Department
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Flock pitched Minneapolis PD: 1,100+ devices and 110+ customers already in Minnesota
Vendor sales pitchThree days after a Friday call, Flock's Huston Cambron emailed MPD Commander Reisdorfer with a follow-up pitch. The offer: in-car LPR through Flock's Getac partnership, fixed and Flock Flex cameras to supplement the Insight LPR units MPD already runs, and platform access to search and share with Flock customers in and outside Minnesota. The numbers Flock put on its own footprint: 1,100+ devices across 110+ Minnesota customers, most of them law enforcement. It also named 19 metro agencies already on the network, including Hennepin County, St. Paul, the University of Minnesota, Edina, Plymouth, Woodbury, Eagan, and Blaine, "and many more." A pitch is not a purchase. The email itself shows MPD was running Insight LPR, not Flock, at the time.
What does this mean?
Flock Safety or another ALPR vendor pitched the agency on buying or expanding cameras, in-car readers, or access to its search platform. Sales emails are often the earliest public record that a department is considering the technology, sometimes long before a contract or a transparency portal exists. They also tend to carry figures the vendor does not publish elsewhere, such as how many devices and customers it has in the state and which neighboring agencies already share data. A pitch is not a purchase. It shows what the vendor offered, not what the agency decided. These records typically surface through requests under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act.