License-plate readers

The City's first award, Purchase Order 24P0294 ($350,550, March 5, 2024), covers “automated license plate readers (ALPR) including product installations, materials, labor and support.” A second ALPR award, PO 25P0332 ($291,000, April 29, 2025), uses the same description. Neither document states how many cameras it buys.

Change Order 1 added “two (2) mobile/temporary Falcon Flex (battery power) deployable cameras.” Purchase Order 25P0207 ($66,600, March 10, 2025) added 20 “Flock Safety LPR, fka Falcon” cameras for the Police Department's School Resource Officer unit. The order form describes the Falcon as a “law enforcement grade infrastructure-free (solar power + LTE) license plate recognition camera with Vehicle Fingerprint™ technology… and real-time alerts for unlimited users.”

In March 2026, PO1367 ($348,700) renewed the camera subscription for a further year, through March 5, 2027.

Flock software on the City's own cameras

Change Order 3 (September 2024) added “twenty (20) Wing App Integrations for City of Aurora owned AXIS Q1700LE and P-1465-LE LPR cameras.” This extended Flock's platform to 20 cameras the City already owned, rather than installing new Flock hardware. The City paid $30,000 and was to receive a $15,000 credit at the March 2025 renewal “in order to co-terminate the additional camera support with existing agreement.”

The drone program

Change Order / Amendment No. 4 (November 2025) added a “Drone Hardware and Services” addendum and statement of work for the Aurora Police Department's Drone as First Responder (DFR) program. The order form lists six “Flock Aerodome DFR — M4TD + Dock 3” units at a contract total of $1,500,000 over three years ($500,000 per year). PO1222 funds the first year.

Per the statement of work, the DFR package bundles “hardware, software, and services”: an M4D-series drone, camera, batteries, and a contact-charging Dock 3; remote piloting, air-traffic awareness, flight logging, and mission reporting; and “FAA regulatory services, SOP development, training, and ongoing support.” The City is provided a minimum of eight batteries per drone per year.

The amendment addresses the possibility of a drone ban: if a “Legal Prohibition” bars DJI or other Chinese-made drones, Flock will replace them with NDAA-compliant “Alpha” drones, delivering three by the end of Q2 2026 and three more by December 31, 2026. It also states that Flock owns the drone program's data — “flight logs and flight history, telemetry data and logs, fleet information including drone serial numbers and models” — as “Flock Drone IP.”

What the agreement says about data

The Master Services Agreement sets the terms that govern all of the above. A few provisions stand out, quoted from the agreement:

• Footage is deleted on a rolling 30-day basis. “Flock deletes all Footage on a rolling thirty (30) day basis, except as otherwise stated on the Order Form. Customer shall be responsible for extracting, downloading and archiving Footage… on its own storage devices.” (The SRO camera order form sets a 365-day retention period for those cameras.)
• Flock owns the platform and its data. “Flock IP” includes the services, embedded software, and proprietary information; for drones, Flock also claims ownership of telemetry, flight logs, and anonymized data.
• Flock may use third parties to host the web interface and cloud storage and to provide wireless coverage, and may interrupt or update the service under stated conditions.
• The stated permitted purpose is “legitimate public safety and/or business purpose, including but not limited to the awareness, prevention, and prosecution of crime.”

Not in these documents

The records define what was bought and under what terms. They do not specify camera locations, the count of cameras in the two lot-priced ALPR awards, which outside agencies (if any) Aurora's data is shared with, or any council vote approving the purchases. Those remain open questions, not findings.

See the source documents