CLEVELAND, Ohio — Seven weeks.
That’s how long Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration has had a simple public-records request sitting on its desk — a request for logs showing which outside law enforcement agencies have searched Cleveland’s Flock Safety camera network, and why.
Cleveland keeps these logs permanently, by its own account. The city has given City Council a narrow 30-day snapshot — 228 searches by departments from Florida to Texas to Kansas, from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to a Parma Heights embezzlement investigation. That limited window alone tells you the reach of this system is far broader than most Clevelanders realize…