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Bloomfield Hills Public Safety
In review The agency answered both requests on Oct 20, 2026 (business day 11, after extending its time to Oct 20, 2026): granted, at no charge. It produced records. A draft of the records and our analysis went to the agency on Oct 23, 2026 for its review; they are published here on or after Oct 31, 2026.
The terms in the tables below are defined on the Requests page and in the codebook. The records an agency produces, and our analysis of them, are added after the agency has had seven days to review a draft. See Methods.
Requests and responses
| Request | BHPS-2026-10-04-A · text as sent |
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| Sent | 2026-10-04; counted as received 2026-10-05 |
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| Response due | 2026-10-12; the agency's notice of 2026-10-05 extended it to 2026-10-20 |
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| Answered | 2026-10-20, 11 business days after receipt |
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| Agency's determination | Granted |
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| Fee | None charged |
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| Fee waiver | No fee charged |
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| Paid | $0.00 |
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| Where it stands | Records produced. Our file is open (produced in the codebook) |
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| Request | BHPS-2026-10-04-B · text as sent |
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| Sent | 2026-10-04; counted as received 2026-10-05 |
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| Response due | 2026-10-12; the agency's notice of 2026-10-05 extended it to 2026-10-20 |
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| Answered | 2026-10-20, 11 business days after receipt |
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| Agency's determination | Granted |
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| Fee | None charged |
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| Fee waiver | No fee charged |
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| Paid | $0.00 |
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| Where it stands | Records produced. Our file is open (produced in the codebook) |
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What we sent
Our requests, as filed, with contact details omitted. Where a request was filed through a NextRequest portal, its number links to its page there. Some portals show that page only to the requester and the agency.
What the agency sent
The agency's letters, notices and forms on these requests that we have saved. Each file lists the request it belongs to, the date received, and the first 16 characters of its SHA-256 hash; the full hash is on the Documents page.
| Document | Request | Received | Pages | Redaction |
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Cover email from the City Clerk, October 5, 2026, 5:25 pm, carrying the extension letter: "In response to your two FOIA requests to the Bloomfield Hills Public Safety regarding FLOCK SAFETY, see attached correspondence."
60ddf514a8458050… | BHPS-2026-10-04-A and -B | 2026-10-05 | 1 | none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the signature block is left out; our note at the top) |
Extension letter from the City Clerk, dated October 5, 2026, covering both requests: ten business days under MCL 15.235(2)(d), "the request for documents will take staff time to locate and review the requested information"; a response "on or before October 20, 2026"
6d5fecb898751cd8… | BHPS-2026-10-04-A and -B | 2026-10-05 | 1 | requester's email address and its link removed; the City Clerk's named mailbox and direct line in the letter's closing paragraph blacked out, her name and title kept; document metadata removed; name retained; document properties cleared |
Automated confirmation from the City's JustFOIA records portal, October 20, 2026, 12:44 pm: our two emailed requests of October 4 entered as one portal request, "Request Number: FRF2026-166"
35bbb88a8ecb993d… | BHPS-2026-10-04-A and -B | 2026-10-20 | 1 | the portal's security key, the tracking links and the request-details table (it holds our email address) left out; notice text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |
Automated notice from the City's JustFOIA records portal, October 20, 2026, 12:47 pm: "The request Request Number: FRF2026-166 has been completed."; the responsive files to be downloaded from the portal
29e6344d669daab9… | BHPS-2026-10-04-A and -B | 2026-10-20 | 1 | the request link (it carries an access token), the tracking links and the request-details table (it holds our email address) left out; notice text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |
Response letter of the Department of Public Safety on both requests, dated October 13, 2026 and released on the City's records portal October 20, 2026 with the records (FRF2026-166), item by item: the City "has never purchased any products from Flock Safety", "does not have a policy regarding Flock Safety or any other ALPR platform", "does not own, lease, or rent any Flock Safety hardware", "does not own any data in the Flock Safety system and does not publish a transparency portal" and "has not conducted any formal audits of the system"; data sharing, "See attached."; of the six exports items, four "See attached.", the network audit answered that the City owns or rents no Flock hardware, and "No hot list records exist."
f3160b5530aa746c… | BHPS-2026-10-04-A and -B | 2026-10-20 | 1 | the requester's street address, town and email address left out (his name retained); the letterhead and footer, images, left out; the Word document's text as released, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |