It does not seem very plausible that a small police force built themselves a dashboard that refreshes and then when asked why they were making so many requests

It does not seem very plausible that a small police force built themselves a dashboard that refreshes and then when asked why they were making so many requests by the federal agency didn't explain that they made a dashboard and instead refused to say what they were doing. A plausible explanation for what they were doing with the data that was malicious was that they were looking up friends and neighbours to gossip about/harass for being COVID-19 positive. It seemed obvious to me that this was the most probable explanation from the start.