Documented Incident

West Virginia House committee sets Friday deadline for Flock Safety to answer written questions

Event: October 5, 2026 · First reported: October 7, 2026 · 9 sources

Members of the West Virginia House Committee on Government Organization sent Flock Safety a letter dated Oct. 5, 2026, giving the company until Friday to supply written answers to 19 questions first posed in an Aug. 14, 2026 letter, and said they may turn to subpoenas or compelled testimony if the answers are not satisfactory. Flock's chief legal officer, Dan Haley, replied with a 10-page letter on Sept. 1 that addressed the five question categories broadly; lawmakers wrote on Sept. 3 that many responses were insufficient, particularly regarding unauthorized access to raw video footage. Flock offered to brief the committee, but the lawmakers said a closed-door briefing is not an acceptable substitute for public written answers. Delegate Tristan Leavitt, R-Kanawha, said legislation on the technology will be introduced in the 2027 session, which begins in January.

Key facts

• The Oct. 5 letter was signed by Delegates Tristan Leavitt (R-Kanawha), Ryan Browning (R-Wayne), Patrick Lucas (R-Cabell) and Committee Chair Chris Phillips (R-Barbour).
• The original Aug. 14, 2026 request contained 19 questions across five categories: security incidents and unauthorized access, surveillance scope and data sharing, accuracy and false positive rates, internal oversight and employee access controls, and data governance and infrastructure.
• Flock's Sept. 1 response said its security program is built around continuous prevention, detection, testing, investigation and remediation rather than an assumption that no security event will occur.
• Leavitt said Flock government affairs director Kevin Kane's August interim testimony deferred on detailed questions and, in his characterization, gave the impression of trying to mislead the Legislature; Flock's response to that characterization is not reported.
• The ACLU of West Virginia is suing the city of Huntington over a five-year Flock contract worth more than $2.1 million, and a local group is pursuing a ballot initiative to void it.

Timeline

• October 7, 2026WV lawmakers give Flock until Friday to answer questions
• October 9, 2026WV lawmakers give Flock until Friday to answer questions

Sources

This summary was written from the published reporting below and links to it; BlockFlockNow does not reproduce article text.

• WV lawmakers give Flock until Friday to answer questions (Register-herald, October 7, 2026)
• WV lawmakers give Flock until Friday to answer questions (Bluefield Daily Telegraph, October 7, 2026)
• West Virginia lawmakers give Flock Safety days to answer questions, concerns (WCHS, October 5, 2026)
• WV lawmakers give Flock until Friday to answer questions (West Virginia Watch, October 7, 2026)
• WV lawmakers give Flock until Friday to answer questions (Charleston Gazette-Mail, October 9, 2026)
• Flock Safety faces Friday deadline to answer West Virginia lawmakers (WVVA, October 8, 2026)
• Delegates Issue Friday Deadline For Flock To Answer Questions (West Virginia Public Broadcasting, October 7, 2026)
• WV lawmakers give Flock until Friday to answer questions (The Herald-dispatch, October 8, 2026)
• WV lawmakers give Flock until Friday to answer questions (Timeswv, October 8, 2026)

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Updated October 10, 2026. Corrections: blockflock@bytebunny.io. See all documented incidents or search the full article archive.