Every file on this page is a primary source and we host it ourselves. Contracts, council packets, policies, evaluation sheets...all of it either came out of a public records request or off the city's own agenda. No signup. No tracking. No third party viewer.
Oldest one is from 2015. That's the drug grant that put the first plate readers on CR squad cars, nine years before anyone here said the word Flock. Newest is the $14.6 million Axon contract.
Looking for news coverage and outside research instead? Thats on the sources page.
The whole packet behind the $14.6 million Axon buy. 20 plate readers, 200 in-car cameras, 227 body cameras, drones, and counter-drone radar. This is the document our report is built on. OCR'd, so you can search it yourself.
One page. Thats what the council actually voted on to hand Axon $14.6 million.
Not a council vote...a City Manager signature sheet. It let CRPD run Axon in-car and body-worn cameras for 90 days. Signed two months before the $14.6M purchase.
Cedar Rapids' first big Axon contract. $709,853 for tasers, January 2023 through December 2027. Useful if you want to see how far back this vendor relationship goes.
The city's own list. Every stationary plate reader, numbered 1 to 70, with intersection and direction of travel. Number 69 is marked "pending installation." Our camera map is built off this.
The agenda item that approved Flock. Two year subscription, not to exceed $499,250, July 1 2024 to June 30 2026. Says right in it that "there are two, two-year renewal options available."
The scoring sheet. Flock bid $499,250 and scored 905.99. US Cellular, a local firm, bid $430,997.40 and scored 501.67. The city went with the out of state vendor that cost about $68,000 more.
What Flock Group Inc. actually promised Cedar Rapids in the bid. Capabilities, deployment plan, pricing...in the vendor's own words.
What CRPD said it wanted before any vendor was picked. Lease an ALPR system and video cameras.
Bidder questions and the city's answers. Worth reading because a vendor caught that the ALPR RFP had been copy-pasted from an unrelated gas-monitor solicitation.
Flock's own marketing packet, submitted with the bid. This is how they pitch the system when they're the ones selling it.
CRPD's governing policy for plate reader data. Capture, storage, retention, and who's allowed to search it. Rules the department wrote for itself.
Another Iowa agency's standard operating procedure for Flock. States outright that ALPR data "is not open to public review." Good thing to hold up next to Cedar Rapids' policy.
The data-sharing agreement between the Wapello County Sheriff's Office and Flock. Shows how agencies hand each other access across Iowa.
Everything the University of Iowa sent back on our records request. Contracts, amendments, invoices, cooperative purchasing agreements, and the vendor kickoff deck.
Data-sharing report for the old Vigilant plate reader system, branded Motorola after Motorola Solutions bought Vigilant in 2019. Shows who Cedar Rapids was handing plate reads to four years before Flock.
Council authorizes a single source purchase of the Vigilant Solutions plate reader package. Funding: $30,000 from the Methamphetamine Drug Hot Spots Grant Program, Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy, plus $1,700 in asset forfeiture money. Oldest document we hold. This city has been running plate readers since 2015, nine years before Flock. OCR'd.
The service agreement between the City and Vigilant Solutions Inc. covering the new plate readers. Terms, data handling, and what the vendor is allowed to do with what the cameras collect. OCR'd.
Contract with Vigilant Enterprises, LLC for six mobile plate readers mounted on two police vehicles, not to exceed $46,860. Car-mounted readers scan every plate they drive past. Same capability the 2026 Axon contract puts on 200 vehicles. OCR'd.
First annual renewal of the Vigilant license for the Police Department. City Manager signed it. No council vote. OCR'd.
Second annual renewal of the Vigilant enterprise license. Nobody voted on this one either. OCR'd.
Third renewal, signed one month before the City awarded Flock. So the city renewed the plate reader system it already had and bought a second one in the same season. OCR'd.
Fourth renewal, and the most recent Vigilant paper we hold. The system nobody downtown mentions was still running in 2025, right alongside Flock. OCR'd.
Nothing matches that.
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