Key e-mail from feds got caught in body-cam maker’s spam filter

Enlarge / A Los Angeles police officer wears an AXON body camera during the Immigrants Make America Great March to protest actions being taken by the Trump administration on February 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (credit: David McNew/Getty Images)

Axon, the largest manufacturer of body-worn cameras, said Thursday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had missed e-mails from the agency due to "miscommunication issues."

According to Bloomberg, the snafu was due to an e-mail that the SEC sent on August 10 to the company's new chief financial officer-however those messages were quarantined in a spam filter, and he seemingly did not see them.

The SEC was seeking clarification about the company's financial disclosures, particularly surrounding its 2016 financial report and its first quarter 2017 report.

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