Lafayette County Sheriff Sunshine Request Data

Lafayette County Sheriff's Office: ALPR System Records Audit

This page tracks the open, unresolved public records request submitted to the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office regarding the operational footprint, database access parameters, and internal policies governing their use of automated license plate readers (ALPR).

Executive Summary: In July 2026, Midwest Transparency Audit initiated a probe into the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office to determine the extent of its county-wide vehicular surveillance footprint. While the county surrendered the initial vendor contracts confirming a massive 15-camera deployment, the administration is currently engaged in aggressive statutory delay tactics to withhold the SharedNetworks.csv data-sharing matrices. Our ongoing audit aims to expose exactly which external agencies and regional task forces are tapping into Lafayette County's surveillance grid.

Core Accountability Findings

The Sunshine Law Battle: Audit Timeline

Current Status: Initial records released. The County Counsel bypassed the Barracuda Firewall using a county associated Gmail and released the Service Agreement with Flock Safety.
Administrative Professionalism (Passive & Redirection): Chief Deputy Munson's response was cooperative in tone but entirely passive in execution. Redirecting an independent audit to an un-contactable legal department email address—while simultaneously suggesting data searchers check with federal or state bodies—constitutes administrative stone-throwing rather than proper records custodianship.
Stall Tactics & Firewall Vulnerability: The use of a Barracuda firewall to block secure external transparency communications functions as an effective stalling tactic, whether caused by intentional manipulation or systemic constraints. In contrast, the County Counsel's decision to bypass this digital barrier demonstrates a strong commitment to public openness and Sunshine Law compliance. Furthermore, Ms. Boyer exhibited exemplary civic stewardship by electing to waive all initial public record fees.

The documentation archived below exposes a systematic pattern of administrative delay and legal maneuvering by the County Counselor to avoid surrendering the digital search logs.

July 14, 2026: Midwest Transparency Audit LLC filed a formal 4-part Sunshine Law request seeking Lafayette County's vendor contracts, internal data-retention metrics, private surveillance partnerships, and usage/audit policies.
July 21, 2026: County Counselor Dawn Boyer invoked a rolling production schedule, providing just the 20-page Master Services Agreement and delaying the rest of the production to August 10, citing records "potentially maintained in different locations".
August 10, 2026: Counselor Boyer extended the deadline again, pushing the final production to August 18, 2026, claiming additional time was necessary to review the electronic systems.
August 11, 2026: To alleviate the perceived administrative burden, MWTA provided technical clarification, explicitly guiding the county to the native SharedNetworks.csv and standard Insights audit logs within the FlockOS dashboard that require zero manual redaction.
August 18, 2026 (The "Reset" Maneuver): At the exact 5:00 PM deadline, Counselor Boyer executed a legal stall tactic. Rather than producing the logs, she claimed our technical guidance constituted an "expanded" request, effectively attempting to reset the statutory clock to zero.
August 19, 2026: MWTA fired back an immediate formal objection, dismantling the attempt to categorize the technical clarification as a new request and demanding the immediate release of the native dashboard exports.

Procurement & Financial Breakdown

The financial trail obtained through our Sunshine Law audits details a multi-year funding matrix designed to establish and maintain a county-wide tracking dragnet:

Initial Deployment (March 2023): The Sheriff's Office executed a Master Services Agreement with Flock Safety on March 13, 2023. The initial contract authorized a massive deployment of ten (10) Falcon cameras.
The Initial Financial Commitment: The total contract amount for the first deployment was locked in at $54,700. This included a $25,000 annual recurring subscription fee for the hardware, plus $4,700 in initial standard and advanced implementation fees.
Phase 2 Expansion (May 2023): Just two months later, on May 30, 2023, the Sheriff's Office executed a supplemental Order Form to expand the dragnet by adding five (5) additional Falcon cameras.
The Total Funding Matrix: The expansion added another $32,500 to the contract, bringing Lafayette County's total documented ALPR commitment to $87,200 across 15 active cameras.
The Physical Footprint: The supplemental contract reveals the Sheriff's Office is leveraging existing public infrastructure, mounting the cameras directly onto utility and traffic poles along major state routes, including MO-13, MO-131, and Highway O.

Dragnet: Data-Sharing Matrices

We will populate this exact section with the network scale, export/import numbers, and task force integrations the moment Counselor Boyer surrenders the SharedNetworks.csv file.

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Flock Contract

Full Boyer Email

The Current Status (The Legal Stall): While the county surrendered the primary hardware contracts, the administration is employing aggressive legal maneuvering to withhold the network search logs. Following a failed attempt by the County Counselor to reset the statutory clock, MWTA has demanded the immediate release of the digital CSV files and awaits the final production.

DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY. The Lafayette County Sheriff's Office is currently operating a 15-camera county-wide vehicle tracking grid. Contact the Lafayette County Commission directly and demand to know why the data-sharing logs are being withheld from the public.

Redaction Note: Unlike recent productions from other local municipalities, the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office effectively sanitized this contract prior to release. The document does not expose live vendor payment routing data (ACH/SWIFT), nor does it compromise the physical ALPR network by exposing active camera serial numbers. As such, Midwest Transparency Audit is publishing this document 100% unredacted.