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20 published reports

Waukesha · Donation and contract approval · Records through 2026-09-15

Waukesha approved more Flock cameras in 2025, then voted to remove planned Flock funding in 2026

On September 15, 2026, Waukesha’s council voted 13–0, with two members absent, to remove $292,000 for the Flock program from its 2027–2031 capital plan. The executive capital budget listed $56,000 for 2027 and 2028, calling 2027 year 4 of a five-year Flock contract, plus 2029–2031 estimates in case of a new contract. A year earlier, the council approved a three-camera contract addition by consent. The 2026 vote appears in the city’s Legistar database; the city’s meeting page marked the minutes as not yet final when reviewed.

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Racine · Contract continuation and camera-covering vote · Records through 2026-09-15

Racine rejected a Flock termination amendment and voted to bag the cameras within 30 days

Racine’s final September 15, 2026 council minutes record three votes on the Flock camera contract. A motion to terminate it within a 30-day grace period, with police retaining information, failed 6–8. A motion to bag the cameras within 30 days and allow the use of data for ongoing investigations passed 8–7, with Mayor Mason among the ayes. The council then approved the communication as amended, 8–6. The resolution text presented for the meeting would have kept the contract in effect through December 31, 2026; the retained records do not show how the amendment changed that text.

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Oconomowoc · Cancellation resolution in council packet · Records through 2026-09-15

Oconomowoc’s council adopted a resolution to cancel its six-camera Flock contract

Oconomowoc’s posted minutes for the September 15, 2026 Common Council meeting record that a motion to adopt Resolution 26-R3404, cancelling the city’s contract with Flock Safety, carried; the minutes give the vote as “5-0-2” and list two aldermen as voting no. The city administrator’s memo in the meeting packet says the city has six cameras under a 2026–2027 extension, notes statements from other law enforcement agencies about Flock retaining data longer than agreed, and says the city may owe $18,000 in 2027 if the contract is canceled.

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Milwaukee · Administrative use limits · Records through 2026-09-22

Milwaukee police say Flock queries are now supervisor-only, MPD stopped sharing its data and retention is seven days

Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s August 31, 2026 statement announced new limits on the Milwaukee Police Department’s Flock camera use. In a September 11, 2026 letter to Common Council members, the police chief wrote that only supervisors can query the plate-reader system and MPD no longer shares its data with other agencies, both effective September 1; that queries are limited to listed crime types and missing-person cases; and that data is kept seven days. The letter also says MPD supervisors can still use other agencies’ plate-reader feeds in 836 jurisdictions. These are administrative changes described by the mayor and the department; the revised operating procedure was still a draft, and no council-adopted rule is in the record.

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Oshkosh · Renewal approval rescinded · Records through 2026-04-22

Oshkosh approved a one-year Flock renewal 5–2, then rescinded it 7–0 the next day

On April 21, 2026, Oshkosh’s Common Council amended Resolution 26-164 from a two-year to a one-year Flock renewal and approved it 5–2. At a special meeting on April 22, the council voted 7–0 for Resolution 26-196, which rescinds that approval and directs staff to reject the agreement and notify Flock Group Inc. that the city will not proceed. According to the minutes, the police chief said his staff had told him that information a Flock representative gave the council about whether the system can create a heat map of travel patterns was inaccurate.

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Wisconsin Legislature · Bill texts and histories · Records through 2026-03-23

Wisconsin’s 2025–26 plate-reader bills failed to pass without a listed hearing or vote

Wisconsin legislators introduced plate-reader bills in 2025 that took different approaches. AB 576 would have banned plate-reader use, with exceptions, and required warrants for police access to plate-reader and private security-camera data. AB 300 would have funded purchases through state grants; a related Senate bill, SB 299, has the same relating clause. The histories and committee records list no hearing or vote, and they record each bill as failing to pass under the session schedule in March 2026.

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Verona · Nonrenewal vote · Records through 2025-11-24

Verona records document a vote declining Flock renewal

Minutes from November 10, 2025, included in Verona’s November 24 council packet, record a 7–1 vote to decline renewal of the Flock Safety contract, with Weiss voting no. The city’s official meeting recap also reports the decision to decline renewal. These are decision records; they do not establish when cameras stopped operating or were removed.

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Neenah · Camera recommendation approval · Records through 2022-02-16

Neenah minutes record approval of a $16,500 camera purchase

Neenah’s February 16, 2022 packet includes February 2 council proceedings and detailed minutes. Both record all members voting aye on the committee’s camera-purchase recommendation. The recommendation identifies $16,500 from the 2022 Capital Improvement Program and the Flock services agreement. This is a dated authorization, not evidence of complete spending or current operation.

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Marinette · Committee recommendation · Records through 2026-08-17

Marinette committee recommended approval of a Flock contract

Minutes of Marinette’s December 16, 2024 Public Safety and Code Enforcement Committee meeting, reproduced in the January 20, 2025 packet, record concurrence in recommending that the Common Council approve the Flock contract. The minutes attribute a proposed shared cost with the county to Police Chief LaCombe. The recommendation does not establish the council’s later decision or an executed cost-sharing agreement.

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Community evidence counts

18 communities represented by published reports
Published-record evidence
645 communities with mapped observations
Mapped-location evidence
2101 unique mapped observations
Distinct source observations
630 mapped communities without a published report
Map-only evidence

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