SHOW YOUR
WORK.
The jokes are in the headlines and the design. The claims are not jokes. This is what has to be true before a report goes on the desk.
Every report cites its source
Each entry on the reports desknames the publisher, the publication date, and the location, and links to the original reporting with a clearly labelled link. The summary is ours and is written to be read here, so nobody is forced onto a publisher's site to learn what happened. The link is the citation, not the point.
What the statuses mean
Status describes the outcome for the deployment, not how the story feels. A council that kept its cameras is marked Contract retained even when residents filled the room. Win means the jurisdiction decided against the cameras. Partial win means use was suspended or narrowed while the agreement still stands. Ongoing means it is unresolved. Removal verified is reserved for cases where reporting confirms the hardware actually came down, because a cancelled contract is not a removed camera.
Dates
Dates are the publisher's publication dates, stored as plain calendar dates and formatted without timezone conversion. A timestamp parsed in the wrong timezone renders as the previous day, which silently misdates a report.
Images
No publisher photograph is copied into this project. Where a photograph appears it is the publisher's own preview image, loaded from their servers and credited on the page. When an image is unavailable a designed placeholder is shown instead, so a missing photograph never looks like a broken page. If you hold rights to an image shown here and want it removed, say so and it will be.
What this is not
Inclusion is not independent verification of every claim. Public records can be incomplete or outdated. Flockinghell is an independent satirical civic-information project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Flock Safety.
Corrections
Corrections are published rather than quietly patched. If something here is wrong, it gets checked and the change is recorded. Recent example: two publication dates and one headline were corrected after a post-launch source audit, and one report summary was amended to state a council vote outcome that had been omitted.
Lawful action only
This project supports public participation: records requests, testimony, contract review, and policy advocacy. Never trespass, damage, cover, move, or interfere with equipment.