This page lists questions the Sentinel has filed under Iowa Code Chapter 22. A request records what the investigator is asking; it does not establish the answer and is not itself an allegation against the receiving agency. Unsubmitted draft requests are excluded.
After police declined to release requested audit logs, search histories, alert logs, and utilization reports under asserted Iowa Code exemptions, the Sentinel opened a separate records lane: the winning proposal and scoring, later contract activity, invoices and payments, and documents showing when the stationary-camera deployment was installed and accepted.
What did the winning proposal promise, and why did it prevail?
Did the city renew, extend, amend, or replace the agreement after the initial award?
What did Cedar Rapids pay, and how was the expense allocated?
When were the cameras installed, activated, and accepted?
Why this request: The Aug. 10 response asserted Iowa Code §§22.7(5) and (55). That position has not been adjudicated. The new request seeks different record families and does not concede or resolve the earlier withholding.
Boundary: These are reporting questions. The request does not establish that a renewal, amendment, payment, installation milestone, or other responsive record exists.
The Sentinel is seeking the underlying 2022 and 2023 agreements, the amendment approved in 2026, authorization and procurement records, installation records, invoices, and records of payment.
What terms were signed in 2022 and in the later 60-month agreement?
What did the 2026 amendment change about data ownership, confidentiality, and disclosure?
What equipment, installation work, invoices, and payments are documented?
Boundary: These are reporting questions. The request does not establish that a renewal, amendment, payment, installation milestone, or other responsive record exists.
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Filed requests
The ledger by agency
Grouped from the filed-request records above.
West Des Moines City Clerk
9 filed · 5 open
Sent2
Partial3
Fulfilled4
Latest recorded movement:
Iowa Department of Public Safety
3 filed · 3 open
Sent3
Latest recorded movement:
City of Urbandale — City Clerk / Police Department
2 filed · 2 open
Sent2
Latest recorded movement:
Iowa Board of Regents
1 filed · 0 open
Closed1
Latest recorded movement:
University of Northern Iowa
1 filed · 1 open
Acknowledged1
Latest recorded movement:
Iowa State University
1 filed · 1 open
Sent1
Latest recorded movement:
University of Iowa
1 filed · 1 open
Sent1
Latest recorded movement:
City of Cedar Rapids — Police Department
1 filed · 1 open
Follow Up Needed1
Latest recorded movement:
City of Coralville — City Clerk
1 filed · 1 open
Acknowledged1
Latest recorded movement:
City of Cedar Rapids — Office of the City Clerk / Police Records Division
1 filed · 1 open
Partial1
Latest recorded movement:
Waukee City Clerk
1 filed · 1 open
Partial1
Latest recorded movement:
Follow Up Needed
Flock Safety procurement, renewal, payment, and installation records
City of Cedar Rapids — Police Department
Requested
Deadline
Last action
Follow-up due
Next action: Human decision required: decide whether to accept Cedar Rapids' $40.00 estimate and handle any payment personally; do not authorize or pay automatically. If there is no response to the estimate within 20 business days, the email says the request will be closed. Continue tracking the separate 2026-09-01 statutory due date.
Sent
Iowa DPS Flock Safety MOU (2025-05-30) and formal contract (2025-06-04)
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Requested
Last action
Next action: Monitor MuckRock for Iowa DPS acknowledgment; preserve the first agency acknowledgment or delivery artifact.
OWL camera product identification and removal records
West Des Moines City Clerk
Requested
Last action
Next action: Awaiting the City's response; none had been received as of the materials reviewed here.
Flock Safety system audit and access records (Organization Audit Log, FlockOS)
West Des Moines City Clerk
Requested
Last action
Next action: Awaiting the City's response; none had been received as of the materials reviewed here.
Flock Safety authorization, agreements, amendments, installation, and payment records
City of Urbandale — City Clerk / Police Department
Requested
Last action
Next action: Monitor MuckRock request 218576 for confirmed agency delivery or acknowledgment; preserve the first transmission or acknowledgment artifact. Do not authorize fees above $25 without a human decision.
Iowa DPS ALPR retention, access, and compliance controls
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Requested
Last action
Next action: Monitor MuckRock for Iowa DPS acknowledgment; preserve the first agency acknowledgment or delivery artifact.
August 27 bill-list item, ALPR policies, and audit/access logs
City of Urbandale — City Clerk / Police Department
Requested
Last action
Next action: Monitor MuckRock request 219834 for agency acknowledgment or response. Do not authorize fees above $25 without a human decision.
UI DPS ALPR, Flock, and surveillance-technology governance records
University of Iowa
Requested
Last action
Next action: Monitor MuckRock request 219832 for agency acknowledgment or response. Do not authorize fees above $25 without a human decision.
ISU Police ALPR, Flock, and surveillance-technology governance records
Iowa State University
Requested
Last action
Next action: Monitor MuckRock request 219831 for agency acknowledgment or response. Do not authorize fees above $25 without a human decision.
Agreements and payments involving Flock Safety
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Requested
Last action
Next action: Monitor MuckRock request 219227 for agency acknowledgment or response. Do not authorize fees above $25 without a human decision.
Acknowledged
ALPR policy correspondence and Flock Safety cancellation records
City of Coralville — City Clerk
Requested
Last action
Next action: Intake the reporter's sent reply so this row is artifact-backed, then monitor MuckRock for Coralville's fee invoice or records production. No responsive ALPR or cancellation records have been produced.
UNI DPS ALPR, Flock, and surveillance-technology governance records
University of Northern Iowa
Requested
Deadline
Last action
Follow-up due
Next action: Monitor MuckRock request 219829 for the University's substantive response ahead of the 2026-09-14 due date; preserve the first production or denial artifact. Do not authorize fees above $25 without a human decision.
Partial
2023 Flock agreement execution page (produced under prr-011)
West Des Moines City Clerk
Requested
Last action
Next action: Human decision required before any external contact: decide whether to seek a final/countersigned 2023 agreement or another execution record. The City-produced copy has a completed WDM signature block but an empty Flock signature block.
Van Pelt compliance request — Flock deployment map, ROW/permit and installation records, complete contract history (Iowa Code Ch. 22 + Van Pelt v. IPIB)
West Des Moines City Clerk
Requested
Last action
Next action: Human review required before any external contact: decide whether and how to respond to the City's 2026-04-08 OWL clarification, and whether to verify or pursue payment for the unconfirmed $62.30 multi-page map. The 97-email production was paid ($89.29) and delivered on 2026-04-20.
Cross-reference: April 8 A-E request and related email productions
West Des Moines City Clerk
Requested
Last action
Flock Safety service agreement, prior agreements, amendments, right-of-way permits, and procurement correspondence
Waukee City Clerk
Requested
Last action
Next action: Human decision required before any external contact: decide whether to accept the partial response or seek review of the donor-information withholding under Iowa Code §22.7(18).
Flock Safety search audits, administrative reports, and public-report calculations
City of Cedar Rapids — Office of the City Clerk / Police Records Division
Requested
Last action
Next action: Human decision required before external contact: whether to send the prepared clarification/reconsideration on the existing 2026-08-05 email thread, asking the City to state the disposition of each of the nine numbered items and, for each withheld category, the specific exemption and record-type basis, and to preserve responsive records. The City's 2026-08-10 response asserted Iowa Code 22.7(5) and (55) over the audit logs, search histories, alert logs, and utilization reports; those assertions are not adjudicated. Do not authorize fees above $25 without a human decision.
Flock Safety Surveillance Program records — council records, agreements, right-of-way permits, ALPR policy, audit data, and budgets
West Des Moines City Clerk
Requested
Last action
Flock Safety camera deployment gaps — Requests A-E
West Des Moines City Clerk
Requested
Last action
Closed
System-wide ALPR, Flock, Fusus, and security-technology procurement records
Iowa Board of Regents
Requested
Last action
Next action: None from the Board Office. The Board directed inquiry to the three universities' transparency officers; see prr-023, prr-026, and prr-027 for those separate requests.
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Scope Note
The public ledger excludes unsubmitted draft requests. Entries labeled sent record a filing action, not an agency acknowledgment or a substantive answer. The page publishes only reviewed, reader-facing request details and does not publish internal analyst notes, strategy, source identities, private contact details, credentials, or file-path references.