What this is

deflockaurora.com is an independent public-records project documenting the City of Aurora, Colorado's contracts with Flock Safety (Flock Group Inc.) for license-plate cameras and a drone program. It is a sister site to deflockarvada.com, deflocklakewood.com, and deflockgolden.com, which document the same vendor in neighboring Colorado cities.

How it was built

Every factual claim on this site — every date, dollar figure, quantity, and quotation — is drawn from the ten City of Aurora purchasing documents listed on the Records page: four purchase orders, three change orders, a drone amendment, a second drone-funding purchase order, and the 2024 Master Services Agreement. Where a number or fact is not in those documents, the site marks it as unknown rather than filling the gap. Two pages go beyond the documents and say so on their face: the Context page, which reports what news coverage adds, with each item sourced; and the Map page, which draws on one outside dataset, the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap camera reports behind the DeFlock project.

The map is built from a single Overpass API query of OpenStreetMap, filtered to the nodes inside the City of Aurora's boundary, and the exact query, the filtered data, and the script that draws the map are published so the result can be reproduced. The data was retrieved on October 13, 2026 and reflects that day; it is volunteer reporting, not an official inventory, and the Map page sets out its limits. The OpenStreetMap contributor fields (user names and IDs) were removed from the published copy of the data so that no individual mapper is identified.

Dollar amounts are reproduced as written on the orders. The running contract totals follow the figures the change orders themselves state. The “about $1.6 million” headline is the arithmetic sum of the four active awards as written ($1,614,549.94); the site notes separately that full multi-year contract ceilings are larger.

The underlying records are published in full on the Records page as downloadable PDFs, each listed with its size and SHA-256 hash so anyone can confirm the file they download is the one published here. Before publication, every file had its hidden metadata stripped and one direct vendor phone line redacted; the public content of the records — official names, titles, and government contact details — is left intact. The Records page explains that preparation in full.

What it does not claim

This site makes no allegation of unlawful conduct by the City of Aurora, the Aurora Police Department, Flock Safety, or any individual named in the records. The people named — procurement staff, vendor contacts — appear because their names are printed on public purchasing documents, in their official capacities.

The site does not assert how many cameras the two lot-priced ALPR awards contain, how the data is used day to day, or whether any council vote approved these purchases. Those facts are not in this document set, so the site does not state them. The purchasing records do not say where any camera is located; the Map page shows where volunteers have reported cameras, and it does not assert that any dot on it is a City camera.

The cartoon

The drawing on the homepage is a satirical editorial cartoon, generated with AI. It is an invented scene, not a photograph and not part of the purchasing record. It is not evidence of anything the chief did, said, or signed.

Corrections

This is a documentary record, and accuracy matters more than completeness. If a figure or date here does not match the underlying document, the document governs and the site should be corrected to match it.

Not affiliated

This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the City of Aurora, the Aurora Police Department, Flock Safety / Flock Group Inc., or any campaign or candidate. “Flock Safety” and related marks belong to their owner and are used here only to identify the vendor named in the records.