The short version

• This is a records file on the City of Aurora's contracts with Flock Safety for license-plate cameras and a drone program.
• Each fact comes from a City purchasing document you can download and check, or from a source named on the page.
• The site alleges no unlawful conduct. It lists what the records establish and what they leave open.

Jump to: About this site · How this site was made · Flock, and why it matters · What you can do · The site itself

About this site

What is this site?

A public file on Aurora's contracts with Flock Safety (Flock Group Inc.). It is built from ten City of Aurora purchasing documents, listed on the Records page. The Program page explains what those documents buy, and the Timeline puts them in date order. It is a sister site to deflockarvada.com, deflocklakewood.com, and deflockgolden.com.

Who runs it, and is it connected to the City?

The site is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the City of Aurora, the Aurora Police Department, Flock Safety, or any campaign or candidate. The operator is not named on the site. You do not have to trust the author: every factual claim links to a record or source you can check yourself.

Why was it built?

The City's Flock purchases arrive as separate purchase orders, change orders, and an agreement signed in different years. Read one at a time, they are hard to follow. The site puts them in one place, in order, with the amounts and terms as written.

Does the site accuse anyone of wrongdoing?

No. It makes no allegation of unlawful conduct by the City, the Police Department, Flock Safety, or any named person. The people named in the records appear because their names are printed on public purchasing documents, in their official roles. Where the records do not answer a question, the site says the answer is not in them. See the About page for the full list of what the site does not claim.

How this site was made

Where did the documents come from?

The City of Aurora released ten purchasing documents through the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA). Each is published in full on the Records page as a PDF, with its size and SHA-256 hash, so you can confirm your copy matches. Before publication, hidden metadata was stripped and one direct vendor phone line was redacted. Official names, titles, and government contact details were left in place.

How much has Aurora spent?

The purchase orders on the Records page add up to $1,614,549.94, using the amounts as written. That is not the full value of the contracts. The drone program alone carries a three-year total of $1,500,000, and the School Resource Officer camera contract a two-year total of $130,200. The Records page shows how the sum is built.

How do I know any of this is accurate?

Dollar figures are reproduced as the orders state them, and running totals follow the figures each change order states. Where a number is not in the documents, the site marks it as unknown instead of estimating. If a figure here does not match its document, the document governs and the site will be corrected.

Is the map an official inventory?

No. The Map is built from OpenStreetMap, a volunteer-edited map, using a query filtered to Aurora's city boundary. It shows where volunteers have reported plate readers. It does not say who operates a camera, and the City's purchasing records do not give camera locations. The map page sets out the query and its limits.

Is anything on the site AI-generated?

The cartoon on the homepage is a satirical drawing generated with AI. It is an invented scene, not a photograph, and it is not evidence of anything anyone did. The factual claims come from the records and the sources linked beside them.

I found a mistake, or I have a document you don't.

Corrections are welcome and will be posted. The corrections policy explains how a correction is handled. If you hold a public record that is not on the Records page, it is worth sharing so it can be checked and published with credit.

Flock, and why it matters

What is a Flock camera?

The order form for the School Resource Officer cameras describes the Falcon as a “license plate recognition camera with Vehicle Fingerprint™ technology,” powered by solar and LTE, with “real-time alerts for unlimited users.” The records describe what the cameras do and what the City pays. They do not say where the cameras are.

How many cameras does Aurora have?

The records do not say. The two large license-plate awards, PO 24P0294 and PO 25P0332, are priced for “automated license plate readers” without a camera count. The documents do name some counts: 20 Falcon cameras for the School Resource Officer unit (PO 25P0207), two battery-powered Falcon Flex cameras (Change Order 1), and Flock software on 20 cameras the City already owned (Change Order 3). Volunteer reports on the Map are a separate, incomplete source.

How long is footage kept?

The Master Services Agreement says Flock deletes footage on a rolling 30-day basis. The customer is responsible for downloading and archiving anything it wants to keep. The School Resource Officer order form sets a 365-day retention period for those cameras.

Who owns the data?

The agreement says Flock owns its platform, software, and proprietary information, which it calls “Flock IP.” For the drone program, Flock also claims ownership of flight logs, telemetry, and fleet information, including drone serial numbers and models, which it calls “Flock Drone IP.”

What is the drone program?

Aurora's Drone as First Responder program. The November 2025 amendment provides six Flock Aerodome DFR units, with a contract total of $1,500,000 over three years. PO 1222 funds the first year, from December 1, 2025 through November 30, 2026. If a legal prohibition bars DJI or other Chinese-made drones, the amendment says Flock will supply NDAA-compliant replacements. Details are on the Program page.

What is the stated purpose of the system?

The agreement describes the permitted purpose as “legitimate public safety and/or business purpose, including but not limited to the awareness, prevention, and prosecution of crime.”

Did City Council vote to approve these purchases?

The records do not show a council vote approving these awards. The first license-plate purchase order was reported to Council on February 5, 2024, and the second on April 21, 2025. Those are reports, not recorded approvals. The Context page covers what reporting adds beyond the documents.

I have nothing to hide. Why should I care?

The records describe the cameras, the retention period, and who owns the data. They do not say which outside agencies, if any, Aurora's data is shared with. Those terms decide what happens to a driver or a passerby who has done nothing wrong, so they are the part the site asks the City to disclose.

What you can do

Can I see what the cameras recorded of my car?

The records do not answer this. Under the retention terms above, footage is generally deleted after 30 days unless it has been archived. To ask the City what records exist, file a request under the Colorado Open Records Act, and keep it specific. This is general information, not legal advice.

Can I file a records request myself?

Yes. CORA requests are how these documents were obtained, and the Records page lists what was released. A narrow request, for a named contract or a defined date range, is more likely to get a useful answer than a broad one. Agencies may charge fees for staff time, so check before you file.

How do I find the cameras near me?

Use the Map page. It shows 293 plate readers inside the city line, 267 of them tagged as Flock Safety hardware, from the OpenStreetMap volunteer data. The map is a floor and a shape, not a full list. A red dot records a volunteer's identification of Flock hardware, not a confirmed City camera. The map also cannot show the battery-powered Falcon Flex cameras or the drones.

What dates should I watch?

Two dates appear in the records. The first drone year, funded by PO 1222, ends November 30, 2026. The annual camera renewal, PO 1367, runs through March 5, 2027. The records do not say how the drone program's later years will be funded. Budget and council sessions are the public forums where those questions get asked.

The site itself

Does this site track me?

The site's code contains no analytics, advertising, or third-party scripts, and its content security policy limits scripts to the site itself. Like any website, the host keeps standard server logs. The links to DeFlock and the other partner sites in the footer take you to those sites.

Can I quote or reuse what is here?

Quote freely with a link back to the page or record. The map data is from OpenStreetMap and requires credit to “OpenStreetMap contributors” under its ODbL license. If you reuse the homepage cartoon, label it as AI-generated satire, and do not present it as evidence.

Are there other sites like this one?

Yes. Sister sites cover Arvada, Lakewood, and Golden, at deflockarvada.com, deflocklakewood.com, and deflockgolden.com. Each documents the same vendor in its own city.

Is this site against the police?

The site examines contracts, terms, and disclosure. It does not allege that officers or the department have acted unlawfully, and it says so on the About page. Its questions are about what the City bought and what the records leave unsaid.