Wyoming police ran 7,734 Flock searches. Who ran the other 6,602,433?

The Flock audit logs from the Wyoming Department of Public Safety in Wyoming, Michigan are up in the File Room, all of them. The Network Audit lists every search by any agency that reached Wyoming's Flock Safety cameras from January 1 to July 8, 2026. It runs to 6,610,167 rows. Wyoming's police ran 7,734 of them.

Also in this one, Lake Shore Public Schools in St. Clair Shores, Michigan spent $281,162.08 on Coram AI camera software, and the contract wasn't in what the district sent back.

In this one:

1 - The videos
2 - Housekeeping
3 - Who searched Wyoming's cameras
4 - What Wyoming's policy says
5 - Wyoming's searches
6 - Where the Wyoming files are
7 - Lake Shore's AI cameras
8 - The figures, and the record behind this issue

"850 To 1" walks through the Wyoming log in about 2 minutes. It says "about 850." The exact figure is 853.7, and it is in section 3.

"Including The Contract" is the Lake Shore one, and I'm on camera for it.

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The Wyoming Department of Public Safety Network Audit, released in October 2026 under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act, holds 6,610,167 rows covering 189 days, January 1 to July 8, 2026. Taking out 66 exact duplicate rows leaves 6,610,101 distinct searches, about 34,974 a day.

4,050 agency accounts appear in the Wyoming Network Audit. Wyoming MI PD is one of them, with 7,734 searches, 0.12% of the total. Every other account combined ran 6,602,433 searches, which works out to 853.7 for every 1 search by Wyoming's police.

The 5 biggest searchers in the Wyoming log, as the log names them:

Most of these searches were wide. The median search in the Wyoming Network Audit covered 2,585 camera networks at once. 2,276,452 searches, 34.4%, covered more than 5,000 networks, and only 12,294, 0.19%, covered 100 networks or fewer.

3,825,545 of the searches in the Wyoming Network Audit, 57.9%, have nothing in the case number field.

The account the log calls "[Federal] Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)" has no searches in the Wyoming file before April 16, 2026. It ran 47,721 between then and July 8.

Wyoming Department of Public Safety Policy 400.L.5, "License Plate Reader," effective February 16, 2022, section IV.H.1, says outside agencies "can make requests to a system administrator or supervisor for specific queries of the LPR database," and "Only matching returns will be shared with the agency."

Section IV.H.2 of the same policy: "Only system administrators or supervisors will conduct searches of the LPR database for outside law enforcement agencies."

The Network Audit shows 4,049 other accounts searching Wyoming's cameras directly, through Flock's shared networks. My guess is the policy was written for one setup and the sharing setting in Flock is another. The file doesn't say.

Section IV.I.1 of Policy 400.L.5 says "LPR related data will be stored for a maximum of 30 days." The audit log records what each agency searched for. It does not show what came back.

The companion log, the Wyoming Organization Audit, lists 7,919 searches by 80 Wyoming users over the same January 1 to July 8, 2026 window. 2,183 of them, 27.6%, have the case number left blank.

The department's emails, released in the same production, show the Reason field changing twice. A December 11, 2025 email to all sworn officers says "a website is currently releasing Flock search activity, including the officer's name, their agency, and the reason for the search," and moves the Reason field to a list of numeric codes. The same email recommends searching a smaller group of cameras "instead of searching all networks or doing a nationwide lookup."

A June 23, 2026 email tells officers they "can stop using the reason codes," because "Officer names, license plates, and case numbers are now redacted in the reports." It also says "Offense type, case number, and reason are all required fields to conduct a search."

Everything is in the File Room: the request, the City's answer, both audit logs, the contracts and purchase orders, the camera list, the policy and the department emails. It costs nothing, and nobody needs to hand over an email to download any of it.

The Network Audit is about 320 MB zipped and about 1.3 GB unpacked. The Start here PDF and the Findings PDF cover it without opening a spreadsheet. In Wyoming's searches, every officer is Officer 01 through Officer 80, every plate is gone and every case number is a label.

Lake Shore Public Schools in St. Clair Shores, Michigan approved $281,162.08 for Coram AI camera software at a special board meeting on August 3, 2026, item 4.E. Somebody filed a records request with the district and sent me what came back. That request is closed. The district granted it in full on October 8, 2026.

Board item 4.E says Coram AI "utilizes artificial intelligence to provide advanced video search capabilities, real-time monitoring, and intelligent event detection." The purchase covers 296 Coram AI video feed licenses for 3 years and 4 Coram Point servers, each holding 30 days of video.

Carahsoft quote 66461463, dated July 28, 2026, prices the 296 licenses at $504.62 each for $149,367.52, and the 4 servers at $32,648.64 each for $130,594.56. With $1,200 in shipping that comes to $281,162.08, all 3 years paid up front, with $0 due in years 2 and 3. Purchase order 270212-11 for the same amount was signed August 6, 2026. Board item 4.E says the project "will be funded through Section 31aa School Safety and Mental Health Grant funds."

The vote was 5 to 0, with 2 of the 7 board members absent. The August 3 minutes list 3 questions on item 4.E. One board member "inquired about funding." Another "asked about what we are looking for." And "President Ziegler presented a question about privacy/student rights." No answer to that one is written in the minutes.

The request asked for the contract and for what features the district bought. In its October 8 email, the district said the records it was sending included "the Coram AI contract." 12 files came back: a quote, 2 purchase orders, 4 Coram price sheets, the installer's proposal and invoice for $905, the agenda, the minutes and the board item.

None of the 12 is a contract. The quote and the purchase order both cite a cooperative purchasing contract, OMNIA Software Solutions and Services contract R240303, and that isn't in there either. Nothing in the 12 files says who can search the video, what the "intelligent event detection" looks for, or what Coram can do with the footage.

The parts that cut against me. Minutes are summaries, so somebody may have answered the privacy question out loud. Nothing in the file says paying for camera software out of a safety and mental health grant broke a rule. And the contract may exist somewhere. It just isn't in what came back.

The Wyoming Department of Public Safety Network Audit holds 6,610,167 rows and 6,610,101 distinct searches from January 1 to July 8, 2026.

4,050 agency accounts appear in the Wyoming Network Audit, and Wyoming MI PD ran 7,734 of its searches.

Houston TX PD ran 381,619 searches in the Wyoming Network Audit, more than any other account.

The median search in the Wyoming Network Audit covered 2,585 camera networks.

57.9% of searches in the Wyoming Network Audit, 3,825,545, have a blank case number field.

The FBI account's first search in the Wyoming Network Audit is dated April 16, 2026.

Wyoming's 80 users ran 7,919 searches in the Wyoming Organization Audit for the same period.

Lake Shore Public Schools (St. Clair Shores, Michigan) approved $281,162.08 for Coram AI on August 3, 2026, board item 4.E, by a 5 to 0 vote with 2 members absent.

Carahsoft quote 66461463 prices 296 Coram AI video feed licenses at $504.62 each for 3 years, paid up front.

Lake Shore Public Schools' October 8, 2026 response to a Michigan FOIA request said it included the Coram AI contract, and none of the 12 files it produced is a contract.

Superseded, do not cite: nothing. No figure in this issue replaces an earlier one. The "about 850" in the video is 853.7 rounded.

1 - Wyoming Department of Public Safety (Wyoming, Michigan), Flock Network Audit, 10 CSV files, January 1 to July 8, 2026, obtained under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act, MCL 15.231, response dated October 5, 2026. Every Network Audit figure above was recounted from the raw files on October 15, 2026.

2 - Wyoming Department of Public Safety, Flock Organization Audit, 7 CSV files, 7,919 rows, same request. Recounted October 15, 2026.

3 - Wyoming Department of Public Safety Policy 400.L.5, "License Plate Reader," effective February 16, 2022, sections IV.H.1, IV.H.2 and IV.I.1. Quotes checked against the released PDF on October 15, 2026.

4 - Department emails dated December 11, 2025 and June 23, 2026, released in the same production. Quotes checked October 15, 2026.

Items 1 to 4 are in the File Room.

5 - Lake Shore Public Schools (St. Clair Shores, Michigan), board item 4.E, "Coram AI Video Surveillance System," and the minutes of the August 3, 2026 special board meeting, released October 8, 2026 under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act, MCL 15.231, to another requester who sent them to me. Quotes checked against the PDFs on October 16, 2026.

6 - Carahsoft Technology Corp. quote 66461463 (revised), July 28, 2026, and Lake Shore Public Schools purchase order 270212-11, signed August 6, 2026, same response. Figures checked October 16, 2026.

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