Blue Springs Flock RecordPublic document archive

Meetings Sep 21 City Council & Sep 22 Public Safety board: attend or RSVP

Timeline

Banner: Downtown Blue Springs, from Discover Blue Springs / Chamber materials

Blue Springs went from a Flock pilot to multi-year contracts and a 10-year Safe City package. Dates below point to council documents, police year-end reports, and Sunshine Law filings. Terms: Glossary.

  1. Public pilot + internal metrics path

    Local reporting described about 24 license plate reader cameras and a short evaluation window. Planning materials in city mail list 24 named sites; later commercial path runs to about 51 Falcon class. On February 6, Sgt. Claxton told staff the pilot would be evaluated after a couple of months using Flock analytics and officer Apprehended flags for Command. FOX4 (Feb 8, 2023) · Metrics intent · Site scale · Resolution 22-2023 PDF

  2. Records retention thread (POL 011 / 30-day)

    City mail on Flock contract and records retention raised 30-day police A/V retention under POL 011, Council disposition, and who owns Flock-related video once under contract. Sunshine detail

  3. Resolution 22-2023: multi-year Flock services

    Council path for Flock Group services: order-form language on the order of about 51 Falcon license plate cameras plus Falcon Flex equipment and about $148,350 per year. Resolution 22-2023 PDF · Minutes

  4. Network share notices to BSPD

    Vendor automated “shared Flock cameras with you” notices and pending Search/Hot List requests appear throughout the 238 mailbox (order of ~100 agency names in the extract). Those are not Organization/Network audit CSV exports. Sunshine detail · contrast 166-2026

  5. Police community year-end report

    The 2023 year-end report says Flock was finalized with over 50 cameras and was “instrumental” in solving crimes and recovering property. It does not give counts of arrests or recoveries tied to those claims. 2023 year-end report PDF

  6. Flock Account Review · success-tracking brief

    Vendor meeting and same-day email to the PD Flock liaison covered adoption and success tracking. The attached Account Review deck includes a slide on logging outcomes (arrests, disposition, property recovered, value) and downloading a CSV to show council and the community. City mail under 238-2025 holds that product guidance; it is not a filled Blue Springs outcome report. Under 211-2026, evaluation and many outcome categories were still answered No Preexisting documents. Sunshine detail · MuckRock 238

  7. Competitive bid waiver for FlockOS 911

    City bid-waiver form for Flock Group signed and finance-cleared: explanation “FlockOS 911 is a sole source product from Flock Group Inc.,” with manufacturer-only / sole-source letter checks and price justified as “See above.” Appears with OS 911 contracting materials in 238-2025 production mail. Sunshine detail · Bid waiver PDF

  8. Police community year-end report

    The 2024 year-end report on the police site covers other tools and community programs. It does not report Flock performance outcomes. 2024 year-end report PDF

  9. Strategic Plan measure

    Resolution 64 embeds language about expanding Flock cameras as a performance measure. Resolution 64-2025 · Minutes

  10. City tracking 238-2025 · broad Flock request

    Missouri Sunshine request seeking Flock-related contracts, emails, sharing, and permits, among other items. Fee estimate $81.87; production access in November 2025 after payment. Request summary · MuckRock

  11. Resolution 87-2025: expansion

    Adds cameras and Freeform (AI search to locate suspect vehicles; Falcon order form also lists Vehicle Fingerprint) and raises the annual path toward about $208,350. Resolution 87-2025 · Minutes · June 17 mayor email

  12. Flock Safe City Proposal meeting

    Calendar invite for a Flock Safe City Proposal session with PD leadership, after 238 was filed and before the December Safe City resolution path. Later adoption packet is outside that FOI dump. Sunshine detail

  13. Resolution 108-2025: Safe City 10-year path

    Maximum authorization about $4,666,900. Term language runs into the mid-2030s in the resolution materials. Minutes include a Flock Safe City presentation by Ryan Mertz of Flock Group Inc. and unanimous adoption. Resolution 108-2025 · Minutes

  14. Work session · Safe City / Flock progress measures

    Council work session materials include a Community Safety progress chart: “Expand Flock Camera Program based on high accident and crime areas” with a December 2026 target marked In Progress at 80%; “Implement Drone as First Responder Technology (DFR) by December 2027” marked In Progress at 40%. Packet also names Flock Safe City contract approval and camera expansion. Staff strategic-plan measures (see 211-2026). Work session minutes · Agenda packet · later: Ordinance 5512

  15. Public speakers: Smalley and Volk on Flock

    Will Smalley and Aaron Volk addressed Council. Video: program support plus concrete asks (cut federal/out-of-state sharing; publish search audits for Council; ALPR on a future agenda; access/misuse safeguards). Minutes name them only. Chair thanked them and pointed to the public safety board. Community · Transcript · Meeting video · Minutes

  16. City tracking 166-2026 · Organization and Network audits

    Request for Flock Organization Audit and Network Audit exports (from January 1, 2025) and network-share settings. Police records closed with no records responsive, pointed to Flock’s portal, and cited 30-day vendor deletion. No fee. Request summary · MuckRock

  17. Resident letters → Mayor + Council; mayor replies

    A Blue Springs resident emailed the Mayor and all six Council seats asking to terminate Flock contracts and set governance limits. Same day the mayor replied: cameras “do not actively track anyone” and “simply take a picture of a license plate” (search of “that particular license plate”); 30-day store; community feedback “generally positive” / “only a couple” / “misinformation.” In 2024 BSPD told KCTV investigators can search without a plate by vehicle characteristics; RES 87-2025 added Freeform. Evening: resident metrics questions. June 25 mayor: does not have that detail; points to Sunshine. Redacted log: Community · Letters.

  18. Chatrie v. United States (comparative)

    Supreme Court held that acquiring Google Location History is a Fourth Amendment search, building on Carpenter (2018) cell-site location privacy. This is a phone-records case, not a Blue Springs or Flock ban. Context for ALPR movement maps and retention talk: Sunshine · Location privacy · Opinion PDF

  19. Public speaker: Porter against Flock

    Brandon Porter spoke in absolute opposition. No substantive Council reply on the floor. Community · Transcript · Meeting video · Minutes

  20. City tracking 211-2026 opened; resident sources letter

    Three concurrent Public Records Request forms covering Council materials (2025 and later), performance and use (2023 and later), and policies and governance. July 10: same resident emailed Mayor and Council with oversight sources (Ventura, Flock guardrails, ACLU vendor-cred piece, Weston); no Council reply retained. Request summary · Community · Jul 10 · City how-to: How to Request a Public Record.

  21. Answer to forms 1-3; form 4 filed; resident Council follow-up

    Police records custodian answered tracking number 211-2026: 618,781 alerts as of July 15, 2026; “No Preexisting documents” for listed evaluation and many outcome categories; several policy topics sent to Flock’s portal. Same day: tracking number 248-2026 opened (2025 expansion emails). Same day resident follow-up to Mayor and Council on what those NPD categories imply; no reply retained as of August 24, 2026. Full answer tables · 248-2026 · Community · Aug 4

  22. Form 4 fee, scope reply, police web route

    City Clerk fee estimate for tracking number 248-2026: $109.47; letter invited alternative search terms. Later that day the requester refined keywords and custodians before payment and asked for a revised fee estimate and timeline. The police website menu item “Flock Safety” was documented sending visitors to Flock’s portal. 248-2026 · City Flock Safety link · Flock portal.

  23. 248-2026 revised fee

    City Clerk accepted the requester’s revised email search terms for tracking number 248-2026, estimated staff time cut in half, and issued a revised fee of $54.74. The close-of-business August 21, 2026 production target remained unchanged. Payment and production still pending. 248-2026

  24. KSHB 41 metro story · Blue Springs on record

    Isabella Ledonne’s metro Flock piece covers company-announced policy changes (including a recommended retention shift toward seven days nationally) and Blue Springs’ Safe City path (story figure about $4.6 million; City authorization max about $4,666,900 under Resolution 108-2025). It cites this archive and Sunshine evaluation gaps. BSPD (Deputy Chief Kyle Flowers, story-attributed) discusses investigative use, network sharing, and the vendor portal. City evaluation categories: 211-2026. Vendor 7-day default vs BS portal 30-day: Location privacy. KSHB 41 · Press kit

  25. Portal snapshot refresh

    Portal capture: 867,967 unique vehicles / plate-related detections; 540 user search sessions; 61,545 hotlist hits; 164 cameras labeled LPR and other; 30-day retention (rolling windows). Search-audit CSV: 540 rows (2026-07-24 through 2026-08-22 UTC). Portal snapshot · Location privacy

  26. Resident Council follow-up

    Same resident emailed Mayor and Council again, replying to the unanswered Aug 4 send. Asks terminate or non-continue the Flock / Safe City path given 211 evaluation gaps; public agenda review; city-held analyses for RES 87 and 108; condition FY 2026–27 expansion on inspectable outcomes. Points to Outcomes, 166/238 docks, and Missouri peers (comparative only). Community · Aug 24 · Outcomes

  27. Missouri Sen. Hawley opens Flock investigation

    Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, sent Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley a formal investigation letter on collection, retention, and dissemination of Flock camera data, with document demands due September 8, 2026. The letter’s first misuse example is St. Charles County, another Missouri agency that dropped Flock after personal-use searches. The letter does not name Blue Springs. Local context: 211-2026 evaluation “No Preexisting documents”; 166-2026 no Organization/Network audit exports. Hawley release · Letter (DocumentCloud) · Politico · Press kit · peers

  28. Portal snapshot refresh

    Portal capture: 848,365 unique vehicles / plate-related detections; 489 user search sessions; 61,678 hotlist hits; 164 cameras; 30-day retention. Search-audit CSV: 489 rows (2026-07-28 through 2026-08-26 UTC). Still 30 days after Flock’s announced 7-day default. Portal snapshot · Location privacy

  29. Other Missouri and Kansas communities pause or end Flock

    Willard voted unanimously to terminate; Bolivar bagged cameras after terminate; Pulaski discontinued Flock (no Axon swap); St. Charles stopped after employee data abuse; Seneca had already ended Flock in February after less than 90 days; Dutchtown CID in St. Louis ended early in March; Louisiana covered city cameras (terminate not enacted as of Aug 24); Henry County’s sheriff will not renew in March 2027 (still operating); Platte City paused a park camera plan; Wellsville and Gardner, Kansas, ended city Flock cameras. Brentwood IA sustained policy violations (no criminal charge reported). Not Blue Springs performance. Press kit

  30. Ralls County sheriff pauses Flock

    Sheriff Brian Allen covered the county’s U.S. 61 camera and parked a trailer unit pending Flock answers on retention, access, and whether data is sold. KOMU · Press kit

  31. Hawley expands ALPR probe; House Flock-Off bill introduced

    Sen. Hawley sent parallel investigation letters to the CEOs of Motorola Solutions, Verkada, and Axon, with document demands due September 16. The letters repeat that Flock does not stand alone and still lead with St. Charles County. They do not name Blue Springs. The same day, Rep. Thomas Massie introduced H.R. 10221 (the Flock-Off Act), with Missouri Rep. Eric Burlison as a lead co-sponsor, to bar federal funds for automated license-plate and biometric camera systems. The bill was referred to House Oversight and is not law. Hawley expansion · H.R. 10221 · Press kit

  32. Parkville suspends Flock cameras

    The City of Parkville turned cameras off while it reviews privacy, data access, data sharing, and system controls after Sept 10 information sessions. Officials said they have not determined Parkville’s system was misused; the stated concern was how data may be accessed or shared outside the community. Platte County Landmark · KSHB · Press kit

  33. KCTV5: resident Sunshine questions, Chief Muenz on record

    Morgan Riddell reports resident questions about the Flock expansion and Sunshine record. Chief Bob Muenz said the department runs bi-weekly audits reported to him, cited case uses including an Amber Alert, and pointed to the vendor transparency portal. City-held evaluation categories: 211-2026 (“No Preexisting documents”). Organization/Network audit exports: 166-2026 (no records responsive). Authorized max about $4,666,900 over 10 years under Resolution 108-2025. KCTV5 · Press kit

  34. Governor Kehoe signs Executive Order 26-18 on ALPR

    Statewide order directs state agencies and local law enforcement that receive state funding and use automated license-plate readers to apply minimum standards until the General Assembly acts: 30-day deletion of non-target images, agency ownership of the data, search logging with a case number or specific justification, and discipline for misuse. It is not a Flock ban and is not a statute. Whether Blue Springs is covered depends on state funding. Same-day local coverage: KCTV5 (Chief Muenz said the department does not need to change its policies; the city-referred portal already listed 30-day deletion). After that story, the Police Department posted on Facebook that it is already in compliance with those standards. City-held records: 211-2026 evaluation categories and 166-2026 audit exports. SOS order text · Governor press · Press kit

  35. Hawley invites ALPR CEOs to a Senate hearing

    Sen. Hawley invited the CEOs of Flock Safety, Axon, Motorola Solutions, and Verkada to testify September 23 before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism. The hearing is titled “Always Watching: Flock’s Nationwide AI Surveillance Network.” That is an invitation, not a confirmed witness list, and it does not name Blue Springs. Local coverage: KSHB 41 (resident audit questions; the story’s “nearly $5 million” license-plate figure is not the City’s 10-year maximum authorization of about $4,666,900). Hawley release · Hearing notice · Press kit

  36. Proposed fiscal year 2026–27 budget

    City proposal (August 2026 package) describes further Flock camera expansion, Drone as First Responder, and Real Time Crime Center staffing growth. Council held a FY 2026–27 budget work session August 13; hearings described on the City budget page for September. Proposed, not final, until Council adopts it. Annual City Budget · Budget Message PDF · Budget in Brief PDF · Library

Signed resolutions and minutes on this site are a curated set. For complete meeting packets use the City Agenda Center and eCode360.