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Flock Sole Surce January 2021.pdf

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Production: flock-finance
Received: 2026-08-17
Custodian: City of Alpharetta (Finance / Purchasing) for Alpharetta Police Department · ORI GA0600400
Requested under: O.C.G.A. §§ 50-18-70 to 50-18-77 (Georgia Open Records Act)
sha256: 3e9bfadf64db2cc036697804df32b8344ca84a34fd7c33c8c8eb1d7d73ff8dc7

How this text was read: 2 pages · OCR, reading a rasterised page. That means all of it is a machine’s reading of an image, which can transpose a digit or invent a character. The OCR's own mean confidence over the 277 words it read was 95.8%, its lowest 87.1%, with none below 60%. 2 pages have since been checked against the image by a person. The document linked above is the record; this is a reading of it. The sha256 is published so the original can be checked against what the city produced.

The document

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The text

EXTRACTED AND REFLOWED — THE DOCUMENT ABOVE IS THE RECORD

Paragraphs are rejoined from the line breaks the scan left behind; columns and figures are left exactly as they came off the page. The verbatim extraction is linked above, and the document itself is what settles anything.

Page 1read by OCR from the page image

Form Name: Sole Source/Single Source Justification Form
Browser: unknown / unknown
IP Address: 76.17.51.45
Unique ID: 735932756
Request ID: #20
Submission Completed: January 11, 2021 3:45 pm
Process Time: 6 day(s), 4 hour(s), 21 minute(s), 57 second(s)
Participant(s): John Robison, Shawn Mitchell, Tom Harris, Sam Thomas
Location: 33.935001373291, -83.953796386719
Sole Source/Single Source Designation
Designation
Sole Source Designation
Sole Source/Single Source Justification
Flock Safety has a product called Flock Falcon which is an LPR (License
Plate Reader) tied into a nationwide database and search engine. The city
owns 1 Flock camera already. Several neighborhoods in the city are using
Flock too and the police department has been given access to these
cameras by the respective HOAs. We are looking to add more city cameras
into the Flock system which has unique search and notification abilities
nationwide. We can buy LPR cameras from other vendors but they would
not integrate with our existing Flock system so they would not accomplish
our goal of having these new cameras as part of our Flock system. In order
to add more cameras to our Flock system, they must be Flock cameras.
General Information
Date
01/05/2021
Originator's Name
Michael Stewart
Originator's Email
mstewart@alpharetta.ga.us
Department
Public Safety, including E911
Department Director/Designee Name
John Robison
Department Director/Designee Email
jrobison@alpharetta.ga.us
Vendor Name
Flock
Vendor #
3435
Department Director Approval
Name
John Robison
Date/Time
01/08/2021 10:58 AM
Department Director Approval
Approve
Budget & Procurement Manager Approval

What this page looks like — a machine’s description of the image, not a transcription

A machine-generated PDF printout of a City of Alpharetta online workflow form, scanned as an image. The page is a single column of laser-clean sans-serif type on white; there is no handwriting, no stamp, no signature image and no show-through anywhere on it. A run-in header at the top lists the submission metadata: Form Name, Browser, IP Address, Unique ID, Request ID, Submission Completed, Process Time, Participant(s) and Location. Below it a heading, 'Sole Source/Single Source Designation', over a two-column table whose first row gives the Designation as 'Sole Source Designation' and whose second row carries the full justification narrative: Flock Safety has a product called Flock Falcon, an LPR tied into a nationwide database and search engine; the city owns 1 Flock camera already; several neighborhoods are using Flock and the police department has been given access to those cameras by the respective HOAs; other vendors' LPR cameras would not integrate with the existing Flock system; therefore to add more cameras to the Flock system they must be Flock cameras. A second heading, 'General Information', introduces rows for Date, Originator's Name and Email, Department, Department Director/Designee Name and Email, Vendor Name and Vendor #. A third heading, 'Department Director Approval', gives Name, Date/Time and the approval decision. The page ends with a fourth heading, 'Budget & Procurement Manager Approval', and its rule — the section itself continues onto page 2. Nothing appears below that heading; the band scan confirms the sheet is empty past roughly y=756 pt. No dollar figure appears anywhere on this page. Form Name: Sole Source/Single Source Justification Form Browser: unknown / unknown IP Address: 76.17.51.45 Unique ID: 735932756 Request ID: #20 Submission Completed: January 11, 2021 3:45 pm Process Time: 6 day(s), 4 hour(s), 21 minute(s), 57 second(s) Participant(s): John Robison, Shawn Mitchell, Tom Harris, Sam Thomas Location: 33.935001373291, -83.953796386719 Designation: Sole Source Designation Sole Source/Single Source Justification: Flock Safety has a product called Flock Falcon which is an LPR (License Plate Reader) tied into a nationwide database and search engine. The city owns 1 Flock camera already. Several neighborhoods in the city are using Flock too and the police department has been given access to these cameras by the respective HOAs. We are looking to add more city cameras into the Flock system which has unique search and notification abilities nationwide. We can buy LPR cameras from other vendors but they would not integrate with our existing Flock system so they would not accomplish our goal of having these new cameras as part of our Flock system. In order to add more cameras to our Flock system, they must be Flock cameras. Date: 01/05/2021 Originator's Name: Michael Stewart Originator's Email: mstewart@alpharetta.ga.us Department: Public Safety, including E911 Department Director/Designee Name: John Robison Department Director/Designee Email: jrobison@alpharetta.ga.us Vendor Name: Flock Vendor #: 3435 Department Director Approval - Name: John Robison Department Director Approval - Date/Time: 01/08/2021 10:58 AM Department Director Approval: Approve

Page 2read by OCR from the page image

Name
Shawn Mitchell
Date/Time
01/08/2021 10:59 AM
Budget & Procurement Manager
Approval
Approve
Procurement Official Approval
Name
Thomas Harris
Date
01/11/2021 09:32 AM
Procurement Official Approval
Approve
City Attorney Approval
Name
Sam Thomas
Date/Time
01/11/2021 03:44 PM
City Attorney Approval
Approve

What this page looks like — a machine’s description of the image, not a transcription

The continuation and final page of the sole-source form, in the same clean scanned type as page 1. It opens mid-section: the first two rows are labelled only 'Name' and 'Date/Time' with no heading above them, because their heading - 'Budget & Procurement Manager Approval' - sits at the foot of page 1. Those rows give Shawn Mitchell and 01/08/2021 10:59 AM, and the third row, labelled 'Budget & Procurement Manager Approval', records the decision 'Approve'. A heading 'Procurement Official Approval' then introduces three rows: Name 'Thomas Harris', Date '01/11/2021 09:32 AM', and the decision 'Approve'. A final heading 'City Attorney Approval' introduces Name 'Sam Thomas', Date/Time '01/11/2021 03:44 PM', and the decision 'Approve'. Below the last rule the page is entirely empty - roughly the bottom 55 percent of the sheet carries nothing at all. There is no handwriting, no signature, no stamp, no page number and no footer. Every approval on this form is a workflow click recorded as typed text; not one of them is a written signature. No dollar figure appears anywhere on the page. Name (top row; its section heading falls on page 1): Shawn Mitchell Date/Time (top row; its section heading falls on page 1): 01/08/2021 10:59 AM Budget & Procurement Manager Approval: Approve Procurement Official Approval - Name: Thomas Harris Procurement Official Approval - Date: 01/11/2021 09:32 AM Procurement Official Approval: Approve City Attorney Approval - Name: Sam Thomas City Attorney Approval - Date/Time: 01/11/2021 03:44 PM City Attorney Approval: Approve

The extraction header, as the text file carries it

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# pages: 2
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