In Flock purchase orders
$1,614,549.94 across the four active awards, as written on the orders. Excludes multi-year ceilings beyond the amounts shown.
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Counting down to the estimated non-renewal notice deadline. The exact deadline depends on the governing term; see the timeline and records.
License-plate cameras, then drones.
A public-record file on the City of Aurora, Colorado's contracts with Flock Safety — assembled entirely from the City's own purchasing documents.
One master agreement in March 2024. By March 2026: license-plate readers across the city, cameras on the school unit, and a six-drone fleet. About $1.6 million in purchase orders. Documented here.
Five numbers
The file at a glance
$1.6M
$1.5M
Drone program, three-year total
The contract total for the Drone as First Responder program alone, per Change Order 4 — $500,000 a year.
6
Flock drones with docks
Six “Flock Aerodome DFR — M4TD + Dock 3” units, per the drone order form.
22+
Flock cameras named by number
Two Falcon Flex plus 20 Falcon cameras, plus 20 city-owned cameras running Flock software. The two largest camera awards state no count.
30 days
Before footage auto-deletes
Flock deletes footage on a rolling 30-day basis unless the City downloads it, per the Master Services Agreement.
Every figure traces to a document on the Records page.
The short version
How it grew
On March 5, 2024, the City of Aurora signed a Master Services Agreement with Flock Group Inc. and, the same day, issued a $350,550 purchase order for automated license-plate readers. Over the following five months, three change orders raised that contract to $408,249.94 — adding a year of data retention, two deployable cameras, and Flock's software on 20 cameras the City already owned.
In 2025 the City issued two more awards: $66,600 to put 20 cameras on the Police Department's School Resource Officer unit, and $291,000 for additional license-plate readers. Then, in late 2025, a fourth change order amended the master agreement to add a $1.5 million Drone as First Responder program — six drones with charging docks — funded for its first year by a $500,000 purchase order. In March 2026, the City renewed its camera subscription for another year at $348,700.
The cameras, mapped
Where the readers are
The contracts never say where a camera stands. Volunteers do: the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap data behind DeFlock holds 293 reported plate readers inside Aurora's city line, 267 of them tagged as Flock Safety hardware, thickest along Havana Street, Mississippi Avenue, Peoria Street, and East Colfax. On the Map page every dot is clickable and opens that camera on DeFlock's live map.
Go deeper
The whole record, one page at a time
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Timeline
How Flock came to Aurora, dated and sourced to each purchase order and change order.
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The Program
What the City bought and what the contract says about data, retention, and the drones — from the documents.
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Context
What reporting and other public records add beyond the contracts: the camera count, the school cameras shut off in 2026, the drones in operation, and the data-sharing debate.
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Map
Every reported plate reader inside the city line, from the crowdsourced data behind DeFlock: 267 tagged Flock Safety, each dot clickable.
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Records
The ten source documents, listed with their numbers, dates, and amounts.
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About & Methodology
What this site is, how it was built, and what it does not claim.