An SDPD captain helped secure a multimillion-dollar surveillance deal. Now he works for the contractor.

The newest main task in a decades-long profession with the San Diego Police Division known as for Capt. Jeff Jordon to supervise town’s use of surveillance expertise to assist struggle crime.

As captain accountable for particular tasks and legislative issues, Jordon was the division’s level of contact for the implementation of so-called sensible road lighting: a community of cameras all through town that register passing automobiles.

Earlier than retiring from the San Diego Police Division in April, when Mayor Todd Gloria declared the event Jeffrey Jordon Day, the outgoing captain helped choose Flock Security to handle town’s multimillion-dollar surveillance system.

Inside three months of leaving public service, Jordon was employed by Flock Security to assist him win much more police contracts.

As the corporate’s strategic relationship supervisor, Jordon is “dedicated to facilitating Flock Security’s development and enhancing neighborhood security through the use of expertise to assist legislation enforcement companies in fixing extra crime,” his LinkedIn profile says.

Flock Security was awarded a $3.5 million metropolis contract in December 2023 primarily based partly on Jordon’s analysis and advice. Late final 12 months, town accredited one other almost $1.5 million for companies by calendar 12 months 2025.

Jordon didn’t reply to a number of requests for touch upon his new job.

The San Diego Police Division mentioned in an announcement that there are guidelines governing how former metropolis staff can work together with their new employer and town of their new roles, particularly if they’ve had earlier contact with firm officers.

“It’s their duty to grasp and observe these guidelines,” spokesperson Ashley Nicholes mentioned by e mail. “The division additionally ensures that we observe any tips for coping with the previous employer as they relate to their new employer.”

Bryn Kirvin, govt director of the San Diego Ethics Fee, mentioned metropolis staff mustn’t use their place to affect a choice that impacts the pursuits of an individual with whom they or an instantaneous member of the family are looking for or negotiating future employment.

“The ban doesn’t stop staff from looking for future employment; it solely requires that they chorus from issues that concern the pursuits of their future employer,” she mentioned by e mail.

San Diego ethics guidelines additionally prohibit former staff from lobbying town for a 12 months after leaving — a “cooling off” interval. However Jordon doesn’t look like lobbying present metropolis officers, primarily based on latest revelations.

Nonetheless, the scheme has rankled some good authorities activists, who say too many authorities staff are accepting paid positions at corporations they beforehand labored with as authorities staff.

“It will not be unlawful, however we’ve no approach of realizing if these officers are getting paid,” mentioned Seth Corridor, co-founder of the San Diego Privateness neighborhood group that has fought to have the Flock Security contract revoked.

“I ponder which individuals are actually standing earlier than town council and advocating for Flock,” he added. “I do not get quite a lot of pro-con evaluation. They make a full-throated pitch for Flock.”

Flock Security, which has confronted a number of lawsuits alleging its expertise violates constitutional protections towards unreasonable searches and seizures, has a monitor report of paying authorities officers in jurisdictions the place they do enterprise.

Based on a July assertion from a police chief in Norfolk, Virginia, the place the Flock Security expertise is being challenged in federal courtroom, the corporate paid a number of division staff when the gear was put in.

“They needed law enforcement officials there with the installer,” Norfolk Police Capt. Charles Thomas mentioned in an affidavit filed in a Virginia courtroom. “So I labored with another law enforcement officials for them as, you would possibly say, a non-public contractor.”

Nicholes, the San Diego police spokesman, mentioned Flock had not paid metropolis staff to put in cameras right here.

There are not any public data exhibiting that Jordon accepted funds from Flock Security earlier than he was employed by the tech firm.

Based on his most up-to-date financial curiosity statements, the one outdoors earnings Jordon acquired got here from a rental property he owns and from instructing courses on the College of San Diego.