The program

A Flock Safety license-plate reader is a solar-powered, cellular-connected still camera, usually pole-mounted over a road. Morrison’s own agreement describes the “Falcon” it bought as “an infrastructure-free license plate reader camera that utilizes Vehicle Fingerprint™ technology to capture vehicular attributes,” and defines that fingerprint as “the unique vehicular attributes captured through Services such as: type, make, color, state registration, missing/covered plates, bumper stickers, decals, roof racks, and bike racks.” So a car can be searched for even when the plate is unreadable or absent.[1]

Two properties make it different from a traffic camera. First, it is indiscriminate: it records every vehicle, not only vehicles connected to a crime, building a movement history of an entire population of drivers. Second, it is networked. The images land in Flock’s cloud rather than on town property, and the agreement Morrison signed licenses Flock to open that footage to law enforcement beyond Morrison: to “enable law enforcement monitoring” against hot lists, including national NCIC data, and to “provide Footage search access to law enforcement for investigative purposes.”[1]

That second property is the whole of the Colorado argument. A camera bought by a nine-officer town department to find stolen cars is also, potentially, a node other agencies can query for their own reasons. The Context page collects the Colorado cases where that is exactly what happened.

The order form’s header terms: Initial Term 12 months, Renewal Term 12 months, billing “Annual payment due Net 30.” Its pricing page then states a Subscription Term of 24 months and totals the contract at two years plus installation. The form does not say which of the two figures governs; by either reading, the renewal blocks after the initial term are twelve months long.[1]

Unlike the order forms Flock signed with some neighboring cities, this one attaches the vendor’s full “Government Agency Agreement” — 19 pages of Flock’s standard legal terms, which the form incorporates. Everything quoted on this page is from those signed pages themselves, not from a website that can change.[1]

• Retention: 30 days, rolling. “Flock deletes all Footage on a rolling thirty (30) day basis,” excepting Wing Replay at seven days, and the agency “is responsible for extracting, downloading and archiving Footage … on its own storage devices.” Nothing on the signed pages says what happened to reads already copied into hot-list alerts, investigations, or another agency’s search results before day 30 — or who holds whatever the department archived before it was dissolved.[1]
• Deleted does not mean gone: “Flock may store deleted Footage in order to comply with certain legal obligations, but such retained Footage will not be retrievable without a valid court order.” (§4.1)[1]
• Flock owns the cameras: “all Flock Hardware is owned exclusively by Flock,” the agency may not move or touch it, and doing so voids the warranty and permits immediate termination for breach. (§2.5.2)[1]
• Fees can rise: Flock “reserves the right to change the fees … and to institute new charges and fees” on 60 days’ notice before any renewal term. (§5.2)[1]
• The vendor’s liability is capped at twelve months’ fees, and the agency indemnifies Flock, “to the extent permitted by law,” for claims arising from the agency’s use and data sharing. (§8.1, §9)[1]

The term for Falcon cameras “shall commence upon first installation and validation of Flock Hardware,” a date the record does not contain. The agreement then “will automatically renew for successive renewal terms of the greater of one year or the length set forth on the Order Form,” which sets 12 months, “unless either Party gives the other Party notice of non-renewal at least thirty (30) days prior to the end of the then-current term.”[1]

Counted from the signature date, February 8, 2023, the 24-month subscription term would have ended February 8, 2025 — five weeks after the police department itself was dissolved — and the contract has since rolled, absent a notice nobody has published, through twelve-month renewals ending each February 8, with the 30-day notice due each January 9. If the term instead began when hardware was installed and validated, the real dates are later.[1]

On paper, the police department did, end to end. The Flock customer of record is “CO - Morrison PD,” the named contact is then–Police Chief Bill Vinelli, and the signature for the town is Town Manager Kara Winters’, dated February 8, 2023, over a block that names her title and nothing else: no Board of Trustees resolution, no Town Attorney approval as to form, no Mayor. In the copy in this record, the Flock signature block was never filled in.[1]

Every person and institution in those blocks has since left the stage. Kara Winters walked out of a board meeting in February 2024 and did not return; the board finalized her severance that March.[6] Chief Vinelli was placed on paid administrative leave in November 2024 and is now the police chief of Walsenburg, Colorado.[4][5] The Morrison Police Department itself was dissolved effective January 1, 2025, its patrols contracted to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.[2][3] Winters’ successor as town manager, Mallory Nassau, resigned effective August 7, 2026.[7]

The contract’s terms survive all of them. That is what a self-renewing agreement means: it does not need anyone in particular to continue, only for nobody to end it. Which of its obligations the town is still carrying — and who, if anyone, can see the data its cameras produce today — is not in any published record this site could find.