Agencies

Direct law enforcement and government accounts: the municipal, county, and state departments that own and operate their own policing, across Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut.

Every agency is a self-directed buyer with its own command structure, budget, and technology decisions, so each is treated as a sellable account and rolled up to a parent account (a state or a city) to reflect how purchasing authority actually flows. The 2,845 agencies map to a set of parent jurisdictions, giving a clean hierarchy for territory and account planning.

• State Peace Officer Standards & Training (POST) commission rosters, for example the Massachusetts POST Commission.
• FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency employment data used to confirm active, staffed departments.
• 2020 U.S. Census, population attributed to each agency from its parent jurisdiction for consistent sizing and prioritization.

Agency lists were assembled per state from official rosters, then cross-checked against an independent federal source (FBI CDE employment data) so every account reflects a department that is both real and operational. Each agency carries a parent account, a 2020 Census population, and a Sworn Officer Count drawn from its parent department.

Contract Municipalities

Municipalities (towns, villages, boroughs, plantations, and the like) that do not run their own police department and are instead covered by another agency: a State Police force, a county sheriff, a county police department, or a neighboring town's department. Flock's own ROE calls these "Contract Cities." We call them Contract Municipalities. The buying relationship sits with whoever covers the municipality, paid or not.

A first full-territory pull built one row per municipality across all 7 states, 3,172 municipalities, each row carrying a linked source (no row without one; anything that could not be verified is marked "Unverified", never guessed). What it found:

• Own police department: 1,261 yes · 1,866 no · 3 constable-only · 42 unverified. The 1,866 with no department of their own are the Contract Municipalities.
• Incorporated municipalities by state: ME 482, NH 234, VT 247, MA 351, RI 39, CT 169, NY 1,543 (62 cities + 932 towns + 549 villages). The full file also lists unorganized / ungoverned units (ME unorganized territory, NH grants, VT gores), marked as such.
• Confidence: 1,195 high · 1,932 medium · 45 low. Medium rows are mostly no-PD municipalities whose covering agency was assigned by the statewide jurisdiction model, the agency name is sourced, but which of State Police vs. county sheriff is the primary responder can still vary locally.

Sources, cited per row: 2020 U.S. Census plus state municipality lists for the spine and population; official PD sites, state POST / Chiefs rosters, FBI CDE, CT OLR 2016-R-0275, and NY's Directory of Criminal Justice Agencies for PD status; State Police troop pages, county sheriffs, and the Nassau / Suffolk county police for the covering agency. Source of record: the NE_Municipalities_Police_Coverage sheet (Drive).

The accounts currently tagged Contract Municipality are a verified subset, ahead of folding in the full universe above: the 50 Connecticut resident-trooper towns and 4 Vermont towns under a paid or cost-shared State Police arrangement (confirmed from the contracting agency's roster or a paid budget line), plus the 159 New York Long Island villages and hamlets covered by the Nassau and Suffolk County Police (county-charter coverage, no separate payee; State Police do not routinely respond there). That is the 213 shown in the count.

Both Cowork pulls returned and joined one-to-one (3,172 of 3,172 rows). Every figure below is straight from the report (2020 Census + ACS, state fiscal portals, EFF Atlas of Surveillance), nothing is estimated. 1,866 municipalities have no police department of their own (the Contract Municipalities): NY 1,119, ME 412, VT 194, CT 79, NH 56, MA 5, RI 1. They are covered by State Police 1,316, a county 490, or a neighboring town 60.

The contract book is the tail, confirmed. Against the towns that run their own department:

Median	Contract muni	Own-PD muni
Population	1,541	7,087
Operating budget	$1.2M	$16.9M
Tax base	$255M	$1.58B

• Big ones are rare: only 31 reach 25k people (58 hit 15k, 112 hit 10k). The 8 largest are Long Island county-police towns (Hempstead 793k, Brookhaven 486k, Islip, Oyster Bay, North Hempstead, Babylon, Huntington, Smithtown).
• Economic weight catches more than head count: 49 run a budget of $25M+ and 181 sit on a tax base above $1B.
• Greenfield for Flock: only 7 of the 1,866 already have a Flock install.

Option	Rule at account creation	→ Majors
A. Population	25k+ to Majors, the rest to Locals volume	31 (15k→58, 10k→112)
B. Covering agency	route to the highest agency that responds	SP 1,316 / county 490 / town 60
C. Economic tier	operating budget $25M+ or tax base $1B+	49 (or 181)
D. Source / close	Majors sources the State Police + county lines, Locals closes the tail, biggest stay full Majors	~31–49 full Majors

The 213 tagged today (50 CT + 4 VT + 159 Long Island) are a verified subset of the 1,866. Next: fold in the rest and set ownership from one rule (the choice is Joe's and Kim's). Source: the NE_Municipalities_Police_Coverage + NE_Municipalities_Data_Mining sheets (Drive).

K-12 School Districts

The public school districts that operate within the contract municipalities: a distinct account type with their own safety budgets, superintendents, and school resource officer programs.

Districts buy independently of municipal policing, so they are tracked as their own accounts and tied to the contract municipalities they serve. This links each district account to the territory it covers and surfaces school-safety opportunities alongside the law-enforcement footprint.

• Urban Institute Education Data API, programmatic access to district and school directories.
• NCES Common Core of Data, the federal system of record for U.S. public schools and districts (enrollment, location, school counts).

A district is attributed to a contract municipality when it operates an open school physically located in that municipality, or when it is the municipality's own named district (covering tuitioning towns that run no school of their own). Matches are disambiguated by county to avoid same-name overlap, closed schools and regional service agencies are excluded so only true operating districts remain, and each district carries verifiable attributes: district name, address, enrollment, school count, and the towns it covers. Because the district list follows the contract-municipality list, it is refreshed whenever that set changes.

Fire districts (to add)

Like school districts, fire districts are a separate special-purpose layer that does not map cleanly to town lines: they are frequently independent of the town, can straddle several municipalities, and carry their own budgets and elected commissioners. They are not in the account universe yet. Flagged to add as their own account type, tied to the towns they cover, the same way K-12 districts are.