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The chronology

How Flock came to Edgewater

This page lists the dated items in the Flock document set for the City of Edgewater, Colorado: the agreement, its vendor terms, the police department’s policy, and the transparency portal. The set does not show when the cameras were installed, so the page does not describe installation or first use. The set’s contents are on Records.

Where the dates come from

Every entry comes from the five-part document set described on the Records page. Tags in brackets name the part: ADD (Addendum), OF (Order Form), T&C (Flock vendor terms), PORTAL (transparency portal) and POL (Policy 422). Dates are as printed. The set does not include council minutes, news coverage, records-request responses or interviews. Council action and other items from outside the set are listed separately, below, with their sources.

  1. December 12, 2023 The Addendum and Order Form take effect; the City signs ADD OF

    The Addendum is “effective as of 12/12/2023.” Mayor Steve Conklin signs for the City, and City Clerk Lenore Pedroza attests; both are dated 12/12/2023. The Order Form’s customer signature is dated December 12, 2023.[ADD p.1, p.5] [OF p.19]

  2. December 13, 2023 Flock countersigns ADD OF

    Flock signs through its General Counsel, dated 12/13/2023.[ADD p.5] [OF p.19]

  3. October 4, 2024 Vendor terms “Last Updated” T&C

    The Flock Safety Terms and Conditions read “Last Updated: October 4, 2024.” They are incorporated into the agreement by Order Form section 11.4.[T&C]

  4. April 28, 2025 Vendor terms printed from flocksafety.com T&C

    The copy in the set was printed from flocksafety.com on 4/28/2025. The page itself still reads “Last Updated: October 4, 2024.”[T&C]

  5. July 15, 2025 Copyright date on Policy 422 POL

    Policy 422, “Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR),” carries a Lexipol copyright date of 2025/07/15 and says it is “Published with permission by Edgewater Police Department.” It is the department’s own rule set for the cameras.[POL pp. 9–10]

  6. August 12, 2025 Transparency portal “Last Updated”; 30-day figures PORTAL

    The portal reads “Last Updated: Tue Aug 12 2025.” Its figures for the last 30 days, as of that update, are 135,048 vehicles detected, 1,492 hotlist hits, and 94 searches. The portal lists 6 LPR and other cameras.[PORTAL pp. 7–8]

  7. Not in the documents First installation of Flock hardware, and the start of the term OF T&C

    The Order Form says Falcon camera terms “commence on first installation and validation of Flock Hardware.” The vendor terms say the term begins “upon first installation of Flock Hardware,” unless the Order Form says otherwise.[OF p.17] [T&C §7.1] The date of the first installation, and of the first camera going live, is not in the documents. Because that date is missing, this page does not compute an end date or a notice deadline.

  8. Length of the term Initial term 60 months; renewal term 24 months OF T&C

    The Order Form sets an initial term of 60 months and a renewal term of 24 months.[OF p.13] The vendor terms renew the agreement for successive renewal terms unless either party gives notice of non-renewal at least 30 days before the current term ends.[T&C §7.1]

Outside the document set

Reported by other sources

How to read this section

The entries above come from the document set. The entries below do not. They come from one local newspaper, the Edgewater Echo (ECHO), and from a listing in EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance (ATLAS). Neither is a City record. The site has not seen council minutes, agendas or packets, and the dates and outcomes of the council sessions below are as the Echo reports them. They have not been checked against the City’s own records. None of these sources gives the installation date.

  1. As of April 2024 Atlas of Surveillance lists six Flock ALPRs ATLAS

    The Atlas lists Edgewater Police Department as operating six Flock Safety license plate readers with 30-day retention, “as of April 2024.” It cites the Flock transparency portal. That is the earliest outside indication in this site’s sources that the cameras were operating. The date is the listing’s, not an installation date, and the Atlas’s news-article citation for the entry appears to point to unrelated material.[ATLAS]

  2. About July 2025 Nationwide data sharing reported switched off ECHO

    The Echo reported on September 8, 2025 that until about a month earlier Edgewater shared Flock data with agencies nationwide. It reports that Police Chief Randy McNitt said he had since disabled national sharing, and that the city now shares only with Colorado agencies. The Echo reports that McNitt did not mention the nationwide sharing in his original briefing and disclosed it when Council Member Gay Keao asked. The article does not say whether any data went to federal immigration authorities.[ECHO Sept. 8]

  3. August 19, 2025 City Council work session on the Flock contract ECHO

    The Echo reports that a resident urged the council to end the contract and that discussion ran nearly 90 minutes. It reports no vote to end ALPR use and that the council agreed to keep watching local and national developments and to revisit the issue at a future work session. Council Member Keao asked the chief to develop a retention policy for audits of Flock use; the Echo does not say whether one was adopted.[ECHO Sept. 8]

  4. September 16, 2025 Second council discussion; contract modification raised ECHO

    The Echo reports that the council deliberated for nearly an hour and that Council Member Lilly Steier asked the city attorney whether the contract could be modified.[ECHO Oct. 8]

  5. September 26, 2025 Further council discussion ECHO

    An editor’s note added to the Echo’s October 8 article on October 21 says the council also discussed a solution that the original article left out. The details are in the Echo article.[ECHO Oct. 8]

  6. October 8, 2025 Echo reports options discussed and the city attorney’s view ECHO

    The Echo reports that the city attorney said the city is legally bound to the vendor, but that the budget process could create a window not to authorize a future payment. This is consistent with the non-appropriation terms in the Addendum (Records). The Echo lists the options discussed: cancel the contract, switch to another provider, turn the cameras off, research whether Flock breached the contract, add contract clauses on state limits on personal information, publicly log past sharing, ask Flock to clarify its AI use, and hold a community conversation. It reports no formal action, and that the council would keep monitoring the situation.[ECHO Oct. 8]

Citations

Sources for this page

  1. Addendum to Flock Group Inc. Services Agreement Order Form with the City of Edgewater, Colorado. Part of the document set on Records.PDF pp. 1, 3, 5.
  2. Exhibit A, Order Form. Part of the document set on Records.PDF pp. 11–19.
  3. Flock Safety Terms and Conditions. Part of the document set on Records.PDF pp. 21–38. Printed from flocksafety.com on 4/28/2025; the page reads “Last Updated: October 4, 2024.”
  4. “Edgewater CO PD, Transparency Portal,” provided by Flock Safety. Part of the document set on Records.PDF pp. 7–8. “Last Updated: Tue Aug 12 2025.”
  5. Edgewater Police Department Policy Manual, Policy 422, “Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR).” Part of the document set on Records.PDF pp. 9–10. Lexipol copyright 2025/07/15.
  6. Tyler Fisher, “Edgewater Leaders Consider Future of License Plate Technology,” Edgewater Echo, September 8, 2025. edgewaterecho.com.Not part of the document set.
  7. Tyler Fisher, “Debate Over License Plate Readers Continues in Edgewater,” Edgewater Echo, October 8, 2025 (editor’s note added October 21). edgewaterecho.com.Not part of the document set.
  8. Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance, Edgewater Police Department, CO, Automated License Plate Readers record. atlasofsurveillance.org.Not part of the document set. Listing dated “as of April 2024.”