CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland keeps a list of every police department that has searched the city’s Flock Safety camera system. But even as residents raise concerns about surveillance, city officials have not released that list to the public.
Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer requested those records on March 11, seeking logs that detail each time outside law enforcement agencies accessed Flock’s automatic license plate readers. The city keeps those logs permanently — but after seven weeks, Mayor Justin Bibb and his administrators have not explained the delay or said when they will be released.
So far, the only peek at how Flock is being used comes from a 30-day lookback prepared for Cleveland City Council, which council shared with cleveland.com…