Michigan · Police Department
Flock hosts a transparency portal for this agency at transparency.flocksafety.com/taylor-mi-pd. Everything below is what that page publishes, read against the 1438 other portals in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. A portal is a rolling 30-day window with no history: the figures are true of the day they were read and cannot be added up.
Not yet read at source by this project. These figures come from EyesOnFlock, an independent aggregator, as of 2026-09-04. Treat them as a second-hand reading: they are good enough to compare portals and to raise a question, and not good enough to quote as this department’s own words. The link above is the department’s page.
What the portal publishes
The template offers five headline figures. This agency leaves 1 blank: who it shares with. A blank is a choice, not a zero.
-Personal reasons or personal curiosity. -Looking up vehicles belonging to family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers, acquaintances, or romantic interests unless directly related to an authorized investigation. -Conducting searches on themselves or their own vehicles. -Monitoring elected officials, celebrities, public figures, or other individuals without a legitimate law enforcement purpose. -Supporting political, religious, or ideological activities. -Harassing, intimidating, stalking, or retaliating against any person. -Discriminating against any individual based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or other protected status. -Investigating individuals solely because they are exercising constitutional rights, including freedom of speech, assembly, religion, or association. -Accessing ALPR information without an official law enforcement or public safety purpose. -Sharing ALPR data with unauthorized persons or organizations. -Using another employee's login credentials or allowing others to use their credentials. -Circumventing audit requirements, retention policies, or access controls. -Downloading, retaining, or disseminating ALPR data outside approved systems and procedures. -Conducting fishing expeditions or broad searches without a specific law enforcement objective. -Using ALPR information for commercial purposes or personal financial gain. -Searching for information on current or prospective employees unless authorized as part of an official background investigation. -Immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, usage based solely on a protected class (i.e. race, sex, religion), Personal use.
Flock’s template offers five: immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, use based solely on a protected class, and personal use. Comparing portals is the only way to see which agency edited that list, because a single portal reads as though its list were the standard one.
This portal among the others
What a portal cannot tell you is what the department signed. For one agency in these three states this project holds the contracts, the statement of work, the drone agreement, the council minutes and three radio broadcasts, and reads them against the portal line by line: Las Cruces, New Mexico. The pattern that read found - a camera count defined to exclude the video cameras, a withheld search audit, a sharing list that stops at the state line while the contract does not - is what the comparisons on the map test against every other portal.