AirSight, the company behind the AirGuard airspace security platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Flock, the public-safety operating system trusted by thousands of law enforcement agencies nationwide. The partnership establishes a real-time data feed from AirGuard into FlockOS, allowing airspace detections — including operator location — to appear directly in the same operating picture agencies already use for License Plate Reader (LPR) alerts, video, and other live data sources.
The announcement comes against the backdrop of a recent success in central Louisiana that played distinct and complementary roles in stopping a drone-borne contraband-smuggling attempt at a correctional facility.
In March 2026, the Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office announced charges against two Texas residents — Melanie Jean Worthington, 38, and Kassy Marie Cole, 41 — after authorities intercepted a drone-borne smuggling operation targeting a correctional facility. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the women had been paid approximately $40,000 to fly methamphetamine, marijuana, tobacco, and contraband cell phones onto the prison grounds, concealed inside hollowed-out plastic crow decoys engineered to blend into the yard if discovered.
AirSight’s drone and pilot detection capability, deployed at the facility, identified the unauthorized drone the moment it entered protected airspace and surfaced the operator’s broadcast location. With that information, Sheriff’s Office personnel were able to identify and arrest the smugglers. What might otherwise have ended at the fence line, with contraband recovered but no operator identified, became a prosecutable case with a vehicle, a named suspect, and an arrest.
In instances where law enforcement is unable to respond in time to detain the suspect, the AirSight–Flock integration will now provide a waypoint and location for law enforcement to begin their investigation. AirGuard sees the threat, and Flock leads the response. When the two operate within the same picture, the time from detecting a drone to identifying its operator shrinks from hours to minutes.
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AirGuard — Remote ID detection from the Grant Parish incident |
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“Smuggling contraband into prisons with drones is a rapidly growing problem. With drone detection we now know when there’s a drone there and where the pilot is. If we can’t get there in time to arrest the suspect, we can now use the combined data to find and track their vehicle. Before these two solutions, we simply had to get lucky.” - Steven McCain, the sheriff of Grant Parish. |
The integration pushes AirGuard airspace intelligence into FlockOS, where it appears alongside LPR, video, and other live data Flock customers already rely on. It delivers three operational capabilities that Grant Parish illustrates the value of:
Every AirGuard detection — drone position, altitude, heading, velocity, and drone ID, including operator location when available — is pushed to FlockOS. The detection appears as a live, moving asset on the same operating map that agencies already use. There is no second console, no separate monitor, no toggling between platforms during a fast-moving incident.
This is where the partnership delivers its biggest day-to-day operational gain, and it is exactly what worked in Grant Parish. Where AirGuard surfaces an operator’s location, that location now appears in the same FlockOS map as Flock’s LPR data. Analysts can correlate the operator’s position with vehicles seen at the launch site within the relevant time window — turning cases that historically ended at the fence line into cases with a vehicle and a roadway-level chain of evidence to hand to investigators.
For agencies with Flock DFR (Drone as First Responder), a soon-to-be released capability will allow AirGuard detections to serve as a launch trigger. A confirmed unauthorized drone over a protected site can dispatch a Flock DFR within seconds of the threat — closing the loop between detection and aerial response faster than human dispatch alone.
Drone detection has matured rapidly. What has lagged is the workflow that turns a detection into a coordinated ground-level response in time to matter. AirGuard is built to surface what is in the sky; FlockOS is built to coordinate what happens on the street. Bringing the two together gives law enforcement agencies of all sizes — along with corrections, critical infrastructure operators, and large venues — a single, actionable picture that runs from the airspace down to the roadway. Grant Parish is one example of what that looks like in practice.
“Detection has never been the hard part. The hard part has always been turning a detection into something a law enforcement officer on the ground can act on, in time, with enough evidence to close the case,” said Robert Tabbara, Founder and CEO of AirSight. “Grant Parish is what that looks like when it works. Our AirGuard platform surfaced the pilot. Flock’s LPR network turned that into identifying a suspect vehicle. The Sheriff’s Office did the rest. None of those steps are new on their own — what is new is that they happened together, in the same picture, in the time it took for the drone to make its run.”
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"Officers shouldn't have to switch between systems in the middle of an active incident, especially for situations that are rapidly evolving. Bringing AirGuard into FlockOS gives our officers and analysts the ability to locate hostile drones more quickly, and fully within the workflows they're already used to." - Rahul Sidhu, Chief Strategy Officer at Flock. |
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