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Surveillance-tech report: Bloomfield

Mentions current to 27 September 2026

This report covers meetings processed up to 2026-09-27. Anything newer shows up first in This Week in Surveillance.

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At a glance: Bloomfield

1 mention of surveillance technology in 1 Bloomfield meeting, 2018

1mentionsacross 1 meeting · read the timeline 2018first to latest mention2018-09-11 → 2018-09-11 1technologies discussedPredictive policing 6,471licence-plate searchesby Bloomfield police, in six towns' released Flock logs · open the dashboard 20%of known meetings transcribed11 of 55 meetings

Not the full history: transcripts begin 2018-01-09, but Bloomfield's published video archive goes back to 2017-03-13. Meetings before 2018 are not yet transcribed, so this report cannot say what was discussed then. Older meetings are still being added.

This report collects every mention of surveillance technology found in Bloomfield's recorded public meetings -- automatically transcribed, then keyword-scanned. Each mention below links straight to the moment in the source video, so anything here can be checked against the recording itself.

Start with Timeline to read the discussion in order, or Findings by topic to jump to one technology.

Mentions are found by keyword and are not individually verified. A mention means the words were spoken at a public meeting -- not that the town uses, bought, or approved the technology. Read the quote and watch the clip before drawing a conclusion.

Contents

Licence-plate searches by Bloomfield police

Six Connecticut towns have released the Flock audit log of every search run against their cameras. Below is what that record holds for Bloomfield's own police department -- not a finding, just the log.

Bloomfield CT PD

  • 6,471 searches between 2023-07 and 2026-07 (37 months with at least one search)
  • 406 camera networks swept by the average single search
  • 99% of them reached beyond Bloomfield's own cameras
  • The commonest stated reason is free text or a numeric code, rather than one of the preset categories Flock introduced in December 2025

Open Bloomfield CT PD's search dashboard -- every one of those searches, filterable by month, stated reason, search type and how far it reached, with a How to read this tab covering what each field means and what the record cannot tell you.

A floor, not a total. The record only sees queries that reached those six towns' cameras. A single Flock query typically sweeps thousands of networks at once, so most of a Connecticut department's searching does land in it -- but the real count is higher. Nothing in it names an officer, shows a plate, or records what any search returned.

Mentions by topic: first seen / most recent

Back to the meetings. Everything above this point was about licence-plate searches -- what the town's police looked up. Everything below is about what was said: each mention is a moment in a recorded public meeting where a surveillance technology came up, with a link to that moment in the video.

Topic Mentions Meetings First seen Most recent
Predictive policing 1 1 2018-09-11 2018-09-11

Timeline

1 meetings surfaced a finding (1 dated, spanning 2018-09-11 to 2018-09-11; 0 of unknown date, listed last). Newest first.

No meetings with a mention in the 30 days before 2026-09-27. The most recent was 2018-09-11.

Earlier meetings (1)

2018-09-11 -- Town Council

Town Council Sept. 11 2018 (topics: predictive_policing)

  • predictive_policing Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...helping and same so we do do those type things councillor McCleary councillor Gotham 11 man thank you for your presentation Lorna's right and I say listen we're at...

Findings by topic

ai_data_fusion

(no findings)

alpr

(no findings)

biometrics_other

(no findings)

body_camera

(no findings)

cad

(no findings)

cell_site_sim

(no findings)

data_broker

(no findings)

doorbell_partnership

(no findings)

drone

(no findings)

facial_recognition

(no findings)

gunshot_detection

(no findings)

mobile_forensics

(no findings)

osint_social_monitor

(no findings)

predictive_policing

  • [2018-09-11] Town Council -- Town Council Sept. 11 2018

    ...helping and same so we do do those type things councillor McCleary councillor Gotham 11 man thank you for your presentation Lorna's right and I say listen we're at... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: predictive_policing, unreviewed)

purchasing_broker

(no findings)

rtcc

(no findings)

surveillance_general

(no findings)

undercover_tools

(no findings)

vehicle_forensics

(no findings)

video_analytics

(no findings)

Agenda/minutes mentions (unreviewed -- live keyword scan, no human review queue yet)

ai_data_fusion

(no mentions)

alpr

(no mentions)

biometrics_other

(no mentions)

body_camera

(no mentions)

cad

(no mentions)

cell_site_sim

(no mentions)

data_broker

(no mentions)

doorbell_partnership

(no mentions)

drone

(no mentions)

facial_recognition

(no mentions)

gunshot_detection

(no mentions)

mobile_forensics

(no mentions)

osint_social_monitor

(no mentions)

predictive_policing

(no mentions)

purchasing_broker

(no mentions)

rtcc

(no mentions)

surveillance_general

(no mentions)

undercover_tools

(no mentions)

vehicle_forensics

(no mentions)

video_analytics

(no mentions)

How this report was built

Everything below describes the corpus and its limits, rather than what was found in it.

Coverage status

  • Channels registered: 1
  • Active meeting bodies: 6
  • Videos registered: 55 (fetched: 11, no captions: 1)
  • Date range covered: 2017-03-13 to 2020-03-09 (all 55 videos dated)

Channels

display_name channel_id handle
BATV On Line Bloomfield Access Television batv @batvonlinebloomfieldaccess5261

Tab crawl history

channel_id tab last_crawled_at video_count
batv streams 2026-09-27 14:38:18.256890 0
batv videos 2026-09-27 14:38:17.493409 77

Registered meeting bodies

body_name category active video_count
Finance, Budget, Audit & Bonding Subcommittee budget_finance True 1
Town Council council True 36
Board of Education education True 13
Inland Wetlands Commission other True 2
Planning and Zoning Commission other True 2
Public Health, Safety & Environment Subcommittee public_safety True 1

Agenda/minutes coverage

  • Agenda sources registered: 1
  • Documents registered: 139 (fetched: 81)
  • Date range covered: 2026-01-12 to 2026-09-28

Agenda sources

source_id platform base_url status
bloomfield_agendacenter agendacenter https://www.bloomfieldct.gov/AgendaCenter confirmed

Research log

logged_at field_name new_value source by
2026-08-26 20:39:32.243867 channel_crawl_anomaly_unresolved A second channel ("Town of Bloomfield, CT", UCNchPckmuJ8vGL5TGxuajxQ, also at /c/accessbloomfieldct and @AccessBloomfieldCT) has real 2026-dated titles per ytsearch/WebSearch, but its /videos flat-playlist crawl (tried with and without --remote-components ejs:github) only surfaces content through March 2020, and direct probes of two specific 2026 video IDs found via search both return "This video is not available". Not resolved -- needs a human/deeper look before relying on this second channel for current coverage. Repeated yt-dlp probes against youtube.com/channel/UCNchPckmuJ8vGL5TGxuajxQ, 2026-08-26 claude
2026-08-26 20:39:32.243867 channel_found batv (BATV On Line Bloomfield Access Television, @batvonlinebloomfieldaccess5261) -- confirmed as the town's official CT PURA-registered public-access studio WebSearch + direct yt-dlp confirmation; cross-checked against PURA Connecticut Public Access Channels and Studios registry claude
2026-08-26 20:39:32.243867 patterns_validated_from_real_titles Unfiltered crawl of BATV /videos (77 titles, all 2017-2020) -- patterns matched 40+/77 (roughly 52%, several bodies represented by only 1-2 historical hits given the small corpus) yt-dlp --flat-playlist crawl of youtube.com/channel/UClNSCmtJl0E6ca7iK8VRZhw/videos, 2026-08-26 claude

Gaps and caveats

Videos with no captions available (1 shown, max 25)

title upload_date
Town Council Feb. 11 2019 2019-02-11

Tabs never crawled

(none)

Get the full transcripts

Download Bloomfield's meeting transcripts (.zip)

Every finding in this report is a keyword match against exactly these files. Download them to check a quote in its full context, or to search for something this report's keyword list does not cover.

What's inside: one plain-text .txt file per meeting, named <date>_<video-id>_<meeting-title>.txt, plus a MANIFEST.txt giving the date range and how much of the town's video archive is transcribed.

How to use it

unzip bloomfield-meeting-transcripts.zip -d bloomfield
cd bloomfield

# every meeting that mentions a term, with the surrounding line
grep -rin "license plate" .

# just the meeting dates, from the filenames
grep -ril "flock" . | sort

The filename's leading date is the meeting date, so a hit tells you which meeting to watch. Find that meeting in the Timeline below for a direct, timestamped link to that moment in the video.

These are machine-generated captions, not certified minutes. Expect mis-heard names and technical terms, and quote the video rather than the transcript when accuracy matters.

Generated 2026-09-27T15:08:31 from Bloomfield's meeting transcripts and agenda documents. Home addresses spoken during public comment are redacted; see the archive MANIFEST for what that means.

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