About this archive
Banner: Blue Springs, MO by Matt Ridings · CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Resident-maintained public documents and Sunshine requests on Blue Springs Flock / Safe City. Cost, evaluation, and policy claims are checked against primary records.
Who maintains it
A Blue Springs resident maintains this archive, independent of the City of Blue Springs and Flock Safety.
Contact: bluespringsresident@gmail.com
Omitted
- Raw private email files and mailbox exports from Sunshine releases
- Personal identity information on non-public records
- Plate-level third-party data dumps
- Complete City Agenda Center meeting packets (this site mirrors selected items)
Missouri and Kansas peers
Named pauses and exits, plus EO 26-18 / HB 3192 / Flock-Off context: Press · peers.
How sources are weighed
- Primary: Council resolutions/minutes and City Sunshine answers (including exact “No Preexisting documents” wording).
- Vendor portal: Activity metrics and policy text on Flock’s host (not multiyear evaluation).
- Peer press: Not Blue Springs performance.
Glossary
- Alert
- Watch-list match notice. City figure under 211-2026: 618,781 as of July 15, 2026, not arrests.
- ALPR
- Automatic license plate reader. Vehicle order: GO §41.3.9. Fixed Flock network policy largely referred to the portal under 211. See Policies.
- Freeform / Vehicle Fingerprint
- Flock search by vehicle appearance (make, model, and other characteristics). RES 87-2025 added Freeform; BSPD described characteristic search to KCTV5 in 2024. June 2026 mayor email: Community.
- Flock / Safe City
- Vendor and City’s multi-year package label. Max auth about $4,666,900 in RES 108-2025.
- Portal
- Flock-hosted transparency page (City answer for several policies; PD menu opens it). Snapshot: Sep 22, 2026. Cost check of Success Stories: Outcomes. Retention still listed as 30 days on that capture; vendor later announced a 7-day default (Location privacy).
- Carpenter / Chatrie
- Supreme Court phone-location cases. Summary and Blue Springs retention note: Sunshine.
- Sunshine tracking
- 238-2025 · 166-2026 · 323-2026 · 211-2026 · 248-2026. Process: City how-to.
- Resolution / minutes / ordinance
- Council decision · meeting record · local law (RES/MIN/ORD City file codes).
- PSST / RTCC / DFR / PS-23
- Public Safety Sales Tax, Real Time Crime Center, Drone as First Responder, capital project line: mostly budget narrative, not a 211 evaluation substitute.
Photo credits
- Timeline: Downtown Blue Springs, from Discover Blue Springs / Chamber materials
- Library: Rowen Hansen, Blue Springs City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sunshine: Rowen Hansen, Downtown Blue Springs Entrance, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Outcomes: Vincent Parsons, Field 8 (Hidden Valley Park), CC BY-NC 2.0
- Press: Vincent Parsons, Sunset at Blue Springs Lake, CC BY-NC 2.0
- About: Matt Ridings, Blue Springs, MO, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
- Community: Matt Ridings, Blue Springs, MO, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
- Site favicon: Transparency by Side Project via the Noun Project
- Home hero: Unsplash stock