On February 12, 2026, while I was filing open records requests and presenting documented evidence of security failures and unauthorized camera sharing to the City Council, Flock Safety was holding a meeting behind closed doors inside Dunwoody City Hall.
The attendees included the president of a $100 million Republican crisis communications firm that “[brings] a unique network of public relations operatives to drive activations” of their “network of over 1,000 local operatives”, the COO of a brand-new political influence operation that “[builds] and [manages] hyperlocal campaigns that blend community outreach, grassroots advocacy, and media engagement”, and a former Biden White House communications director, whose company “[crafts] a proactive narrative and [implements] it through targeted outlets.”
Dunwoody was represented, at least on paper, by a single police lieutenant.
I know this because the calendar invite ended up in a city government inbox, and I got it through the Georgia Open Records Act.
The Invite
On February 6, 2026, Holly Beilin (Chief of Staff to Flock Safety’s Chief Communications Officer) sent a Google Calendar invitation for a “Dunwoody RTCC Tour” at 4800 Ashford Dunwoody Rd NE, Suite 239. The meeting was scheduled for February 12, 2026, 9:30am to 10:30am.
Eight of the eleven invitees confirmed attendance. Josh Thomas, Flock Safety’s Chief Communications Officer (CCO), declined. Trevor Chandler, Flock’s Senior Director of Public Affairs, and Kameron Simmons, Flock’s Senior Director of Government Affairs, did not respond.
The confirmed attendees were:
From Flock Safety:
Holly Beilin, Chief of Staff to the CCO Josh Thomas (organizer)
From the City of Dunwoody:
Timothy Fecht, Lieutenant, Dunwoody Police Department
From outside firms:
Connie Partoyan (cpartoyan@targetedvictory.com) - President, Targeted Victory
Ellie Hockenbury (ehockenbury@targetedvictory.com) - Managing Director, Targeted Victory
Annie Butler (abutler@targetedvictory.com) - Director, Targeted Victory
C. Bellamy (cbellamy@sixamstrategies.com) - SixAM Strategies
Jessie Keady (jkeady@sixamstrategies.com) - COO, SixAM Strategies
Meghan Hays (meghan.hays@gmail.com) - Principal, West Shore Strategies
Apparently one city employee, but seven crisis management professionals.
One more thing about this meeting. It was titled “Dunwoody RTCC Tour” on the calendar invite. The RTCC (Real Time Crime Center) where Flock’s surveillance network is monitored, is not at Suite 239. Suite 239 where the meeting’s location was set is the Dunwoody Police Department, behind a locked door that requires keycard access. Today I visited the building myself to confirm this. Whatever this meeting was, it wasn’t a tour of the Real Time Crime Center, although Holly purposefully named it that.
Who Are These People?
Trevor Chandler leads Flock’s national public affairs operation and describes his role publicly as “leading a nationwide team of policy professionals advocating for Flock’s public-safety technology.” His LinkedIn headline reads “Tech Policy & Government Affairs | AI & Public Safety.” Kameron Simmons leads government affairs for Flock and, as I’ll explain below, is a professional registered lobbyist.
Targeted Victory is a $100 million Republican digital and political consulting firm, part of Stagwell Global. If the name sounds familiar, it should: in 2022, the Washington Post reported that Meta had paid Targeted Victory to orchestrate a nationwide campaign against TikTok that included planting op-eds in regional newspapers, recruiting politicians and reporters, and seeding negative stories in local media. That is their documented, public record playbook. Their own website describes their pitch as: “communication is personal and trust is local” and promises clients help to “navigate political fights and reputational thickets.” Their public affairs page lists Crisis Communications, Risk & Reputation Strategic Consulting, and Victory at Scale among their services, and advertises a network of 1,000 operatives and 50-state activation capability.
SixAM Strategies is Targeted Victory’s sister company under Stagwell Global, founded in November 2025, two months before this meeting. Their website is worth reading in full, but a few lines stand out: they call their execution capability “Activations”, described as building hyperlocal campaigns blending “community outreach, grassroots advocacy, and media engagement.” They can deploy within 48 hours, and their services run “from corporate reputation development to direct advocacy to state and federal policymakers.” Both of their representatives confirmed attendance.
In attendance was West Shore Strategies, whose website describes its work as “we craft a proactive narrative and implement it through targeted outlets.”
I want to be clear about what this group is. Targeted Victory’s website says “communication is personal and trust is local.” SixAM’s website says “real impact starts with stories that come from the community itself.” Together, under the same Stagwell Global parent company, they are describing a single operation: manufacture local trust, generate community-level cover, and deploy it on behalf of a corporate client. Their documented track record, the one the Washington Post reported on in 2022, is doing exactly that through planted op-eds, recruited voices, and seeded stories. That is not speculation - it is their own words and their own history.
The Context
At the time of this meeting, I had been filing Georgia Open Records Act requests into Flock Safety’s contract with the Dunwoody Police Department since January 2026.
What I had found, and then what I went on to find, included access by Flock employees to cameras at our parks, playground, and school, and also inside a private business, including cameras in a gymnastics room, and the pool. The City hasn’t found any records of the “demo partner agreement” which Flock claims authorized this access.
But at the specific time of this meeting, Flock’s contract with the City of Dunwoody was active and under consideration for renewal.
In April 2026, the Dunwoody City Council voted unanimously to approve a toothless master services agreement, and purchase $215,000 more of Flock’s data collection apparatus.
After the vote, Trevor Chandler (mentioned earlier) posted on LinkedIn: “Dunwoody has long been one of Flock’s strongest partners as we continue to set the bar on groundbreaking public safety technology, proud of the team for this unanimous vote!” Note that Trevor Chandler refers to the Dunwoody City Council as “the team.”
As far as I’m aware, the City Council is supposed to be on the citizens’ team.
The Lobbying Problem
Kameron Simmons is a professional lobbyist. Washington State Public Disclosure Commission records confirm that he has been registered as a paid lobbyist for Flock Safety in Washington State every single year since 2023, continuously through the present. Four consecutive years of active registration, listed under his own name, c/o Politicom Law LLP in Sausalito.
He is not registered as a lobbyist in Georgia. Neither is Trevor Chandler. I downloaded the Georgia Ethics Commission’s current lobbyist roster and searched it. Flock Safety has exactly one registered Georgia lobbyist: Nick Juliano of Impact Public Affairs, registered November 10, 2025, at the local, state, and vendor levels.
The fact that Flock went through the trouble of registering Nick Juliano as a Georgia lobbyist tells you they know registration is required here. The absence of Simmons and Chandler from that roster is not an administrative oversight.
Georgia law requires registration before engaging in lobbying activities before local government officials. I believe that being dispatched by your employer, in your professional capacity as a paid government affairs employee, to a meeting at a government facility with a city official, for a company that has an active government contract with that city, falls within that definition. Someone who has registered as a lobbyist for four consecutive years in another state knows exactly what registration means.
Today I filed a formal complaint with the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission (State Ethics Commission) alleging that Kameron Simmons and Trevor L. Chandler engaged in lobbying activities in Georgia on behalf of Flock Safety without registering as required by O.C.G.A. § 21-5-71. The complaint, along with supporting documentation including the calendar invitation, the Washington State PDC registration records, and the Georgia lobbyist roster, has been submitted via certified mail.
What We Still Don’t Know
The calendar invite shows who was invited and who confirmed attendance. It does not show what was discussed, what was decided, or whether any work product was delivered by the outside firms as a result of this meeting.
It also raises a question I haven’t been able to answer yet: was Lieutenant Fecht really the only person from the City of Dunwoody in that room? I find that hard to believe. Flock brought its entire communications and government affairs leadership to this meeting, along with the president of a $100 million crisis management firm and two other outside organizations. The idea that Dunwoody’s side of the table was a single police lieutenant feels incomplete to me. Either there were other city employees or officials present who intentionally weren’t on the calendar invite, or someone made a decision that a lieutenant should be the sole representative of the city at a meeting of this nature, and I think either explanation deserves scrutiny.
Before publishing this piece, I emailed Mayor Deutsch and every member of the City Council directly and gave them the opportunity to tell me whether they or any other city employees or officials attended this meeting. Given that the mayor has stated publicly that the city is committed to transparency, I thought it was only fair to ask directly before I found out another way. I have open records requests pending for all internal Dunwoody communications about this meeting as well, and I will publish what I receive.
Given the seniority and professional backgrounds of everyone else in that room it would seem highly unusual if Lieutenant Fecht was truly the only person the City of Dunwoody sent. I am unsure if this closed-door meeting is part of the “transparency” that Mayor Deutsch and the rest of the City Council have said they are committed to.
Who authorized this meeting, and what did the City of Dunwoody agree to in that room?
And while we’re asking questions: is the professional crisis machine Flock has assembled around these contracts the reason our police leadership and elected officials continue to publicly tout the benefits of a vendor whose employees were found accessing cameras at our parks, playgrounds, and schools, as well as inside a private children’s gymnastics room?
If you live in Dunwoody and have questions about who was in that room and why, your city council members (are supposed to) represent you. You can find their contact information and email them directly here:
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I’m just a dad who has filed open records requests trying to fight this $8.4B mass surveillance corporation, expose government corruption and create a safer world for my family. This is just my opinion, take from this evidence what you will.
Hi Jason! I’m Colleen from Courier Newsroom. I’d love to interview you about this and your work here. Can you send me an email? colleen@couriernewsroom.com. Thank you!