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Investigate West Des Moines Police Department Flock implementation

investigation-targetatlas-indexed-leadconfidence 0.82schema 0.9.0

Locality recursion target for West Des Moines Police Department in West Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa.

Metadata

StarIntel IDstarintel:investigation-target:aos013589:locality
Datasetflock-safety-national-state-locality-seed-2026-07-25
Schema0.9.0
Version1
Updated2026-07-25T17:58:54-04:00

Type-specific data

Actor

starintel-auto-dig

Breadth
10
Depth
2
Max Depth
3
Objectives
  • Find contracts, purchase orders, grants, renewals, prices, and resellers

  • Identify officials, administrators, records staff, vendor personnel, and lobbyists

  • Obtain policy, retention, sharing, user rosters, audits, misuse investigations, and termination records

Priority
0.832
Query

"West Des Moines Police Department" "Flock Safety" contract purchase council policy audit lobbyist

Required Dtypes
  • org

  • person

  • relation

  • contract

  • procurement

  • lobbying-filing

  • policy

  • event

  • analysis

  • investigation-target

Research Question

Who implemented, funded, approved, administered, audited, renewed, opposed, or terminated Flock Safety at West Des Moines Police Department, and what sharing relationships exist?

Scope Type

locality

Score
0.832
Seed Ids
  • starintel:investigation-target:flock-state:ia

  • starintel:org:flock-safety

  • starintel:source:atlas-of-surveillance-alpr-export-2026-07-25

Selection Reason
  • As of April 2024, the West Des Moines Police Department operates 56 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.

Status

queued

Target

West Des Moines Police Department Flock Safety implementation

Target Type

local-government-or-law-enforcement-implementation

Assessment

Confidence
0.82
Priority
0.832

Verification

Status

atlas-indexed-lead

Verified
False

Handling

Pii
False
Sensitive
False
Visibility

public

Workflow

Max Depth
3
Priority
0.832
Queue

flock-locality-ia

Recursion Depth
2
Research Status

queued

Root Target Id

starintel:investigation-target:flock-national

Selected From
  • starintel:investigation-target:flock-state:ia

Geospatial

City

West Des Moines

Country

United States

Country Code

US

County

Polk County

Jurisdiction

West Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa

State

Iowa

Extensions

Starintel.Atlas Seed
Agency

West Des Moines Police Department

Aos Number

AOS013589

Atlas Summary

As of April 2024, the West Des Moines Police Department operates 56 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.

City

West Des Moines

County

Polk County

Ori9

IA0770500ALPR

Reported Camera Count
56
State Code

IA

Related records

Sources

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Raw JSON
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