I turned the Chatrie ruling into a records request you can file to hold FLOCK accountable

Last couple days, the inbox overfloweth with the same question: show me, Obi-Wan — how do I get in the Flock game?

Good. The F.U.C.K. project is catching on, and it should. The cameras went up without a vote, and our data's getting hoovered up by God knows who.

So I took decades of battle-tested experience and boiled it down to a plain guide for filing one records request that pins your policing agency to the wall.

First: pull the retention schedule. That way "no records" stops being a dead end and starts being a compliance failure — in writing.

Then: grab the metadata. Skip the plate data.

State agnostic. Works coast to coast. Comes with paste-ready replies for the usual "eff off, ya hoser" brush-offs.

It's on my profile. No pitch, just the playbook. Free, released under Creative Commons.

Go make your department show its work. Tell 'em Obi-Wan sent ya.