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Investigate Bessemer City Police Department Flock implementation

investigation-targetatlas-indexed-leadconfidence 0.82schema 0.9.0

Locality recursion target for Bessemer City Police Department in Bessemer City, Gaston County, North Carolina.

Metadata

StarIntel IDstarintel:investigation-target:aos013614: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
0.738
Query

"Bessemer City 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 Bessemer City Police Department, and what sharing relationships exist?

Scope Type

locality

Score
0.738
Seed Ids
  • starintel:investigation-target:flock-state:nc

  • starintel:org:flock-safety

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

Selection Reason
  • As of April 2024, the Bessemer City Police Department operates nine Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.

Status

queued

Target

Bessemer City Police Department Flock Safety implementation

Target Type

local-government-or-law-enforcement-implementation

Assessment

Confidence
0.82
Priority
0.738

Verification

Status

atlas-indexed-lead

Verified
False

Handling

Pii
False
Sensitive
False
Visibility

public

Workflow

Max Depth
3
Priority
0.738
Queue

flock-locality-nc

Recursion Depth
2
Research Status

queued

Root Target Id

starintel:investigation-target:flock-national

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

Geospatial

City

Bessemer City

Country

United States

Country Code

US

County

Gaston County

Jurisdiction

Bessemer City, Gaston County, North Carolina

State

North Carolina

Extensions

Starintel.Atlas Seed
Agency

Bessemer City Police Department

Aos Number

AOS013614

Atlas Summary

As of April 2024, the Bessemer City Police Department operates nine Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.

City

Bessemer City

County

Gaston County

Ori9

NC0360200ALPR

Reported Camera Count
9
State Code

NC

Related records

Sources

Generated Org node

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Raw JSON
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