Guerrilla News
Chief Investigative Journalist. Ron builds every story on the paper trail: records requests, contracts, minutes and court filings across Oklahoma.
Voters told Oklahoma to send SQ 780 prison savings to county treatment. A 2025 report puts savings at $202.3 million and county investment at $37.5 million. Three words in the statute let lawmakers wait six years.
Oklahoma City police found Danny Ellerd too sick to jail. He left OSU-OKC with a 4.0 and two degrees. What carried him was a ministry, private foundations and an $850,000 federal earmark, not the state fund voters created for people like him.
ICE signed a $220 million contract for Tasers at $12,359 per unit. The President bought Axon stock two weeks before it was announced. The same investors funded both Flock and the company replacing it.
Axon paid $625 million for Carbyne — an Israeli-founded 911 platform built by former special forces and intelligence operatives, funded through a vehicle that included Jeffrey Epstein. It now runs inside 911 systems across 23 states. Development remains in Tel Aviv.
While every activist in America was focused on tearing down Flock cameras, a 40-year-old company was quietly installing surveillance devices inside existing street lights. Denver canceled its Flock contract. Then it signed a deal with Axon for something far more capable — and far harder to see.
Cloverleaf says it can build in the unincorporated county. Canadian and Kingfisher counties have no zoning, no building codes, and no way to stop it. Here is what Cloverleaf actually said, in its own documents.
In Hollywood, Florida, a Houston developer told a room of city officials what its Piedmont data center would really be worth, and what kind of city council it needs to get it built. It has never told Piedmont either one.
The firm is called Drummond Law. Oklahoma's ethics rules say a firm can't use a public official's name unless he's actively practicing there. If he is, he's violating his public mandate. If he isn't, the name is doing something else.
He wants foreign governments out of Oklahoma. Two weeks after his June check cleared, the company he pays registered as a paid agent of a Mexican state government. Mazzei has now sent this company $82,500.
A foreclosure filed by Oklahoma's Solicitor General through his boss's private law firm listed the Oklahoma Tax Commission as a defendant. The state had to assign its own lawyer to fight back.
Oklahoma pays its Solicitor General $205,485 a year to argue the state's biggest cases. Court records show he filed a private lawsuit for a bank his boss, the Attorney General, owns and chairs.
Denver called Flock a 'bad actor.' Evanston covered the cameras with plastic. Oshkosh reversed a contract in 24 hours. Then a Washington citizen won the right to see his data, and the legislature passed a law to make sure nobody could ever do it again.
Two Virginia residents are suing their city for placing them under continuous warrantless surveillance by 200 Flock cameras. The legal theory behind their case has already killed one surveillance program. Flock's entire business model is next.
A researcher found live police cameras streaming to the open internet with no password. Hardcoded keys in the source code. A $5 USB stick that gives root access. Flock Safety is worth $8.4 billion. It runs on Android 8.
A Milwaukee officer ran a woman's plates 170 times in two months. The detective assigned to investigate him was stalking a different woman. In Idaho, a sheriff searched his own wife 700 times. Nobody audited any of it.
