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The chronology

How Flock came to Morrison

Every dated step this site can document, from the signature on the contract to the dissolution of the department that signed it, and the renewal arithmetic still running afterward. Where a step is missing, the record, not this page, is what skipped it.

The documented chronology. Entries marked “this site's arithmetic” are computed from the contract's terms, not stated in any record.
DateWhat happenedSource
January 2022Bill Vinelli is hired as Morrison's chief of police, bringing, per the town's bio at the time, more than three decades of law-enforcement experience. He is the police contact named on the Flock paperwork a year later.CBS News Colorado[4]
February 8, 2023Town Manager Kara Winters signs a Flock Services Agreement for the customer “CO - Morrison PD”: 4 Falcon license-plate-reader cameras at $10,000 a year, a $1,400 implementation fee, a 24-month subscription term, renewal terms of 12 months, contract total $21,400, footage deleted on a rolling 30-day basis. The document cites no Board of Trustees vote, and the Flock signature block in the copy in this record is blank. The file's own metadata says the vendor generated it on January 23, 2023.The signed agreement[1]
UndatedThe term for Falcon cameras “shall commence upon first installation and validation of Flock Hardware.” No installation record, and therefore no true start date, appears in the public record.The signed agreement[1]
February 2024Town Manager Kara Winters, who signed the contract, walks out of a board meeting during a dispute over employee compensation and does not return; the board finalizes a severance agreement in March. Mallory Nassau succeeds her on July 1, 2024.Colorado Community Media[5]
June 2024Separately from Flock: Morrison's new automated speed camera at Bear Creek and Mount Vernon Avenues, installed under a 2023 state law, records more than 10,000 violations in its first two weeks. A different technology under different rules, but a measure of how much automated enforcement the quarter-square-mile town runs.CPR News; Denver7[6]
November 4, 2024Chief Vinelli is placed on involuntary, paid administrative leave while the town investigates unspecified alleged policy violations. He later tells a Walsenburg public hearing the allegations included taking pay from Denver to patrol Red Rocks Amphitheatre while also being paid by Morrison; allegations are not findings.CBS News Colorado; Colorado Community Media[4]
December 2024With the police department more than $150,000 over its roughly $1.5 million budget — about 41 percent of the town's entire budget — the Board of Trustees votes to dissolve the Morrison Police Department, effective January 1, 2025. The 2025 budget sets aside about $600,000 for policing by contract instead.CPR News; Denver Gazette[2]
January 1, 2025Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies begin patrolling Morrison full-time. The Flock customer of record, “CO - Morrison PD,” ceases to exist. No record this site could find says what became of the contract, the cameras, or the data access.9News; Denver7[3]
February 8, 2025This site's arithmetic: counted from the signature date, the 24-month subscription term ends, five weeks after the department's dissolution. Absent a non-renewal notice nobody has published, the agreement's terms roll it into successive 12-month renewals ending each February 8.Computed from the agreement's terms[1]
September 22, 2025CBS News Colorado surveys the state's plate readers: 60 police and sheriff departments use ALPRs, 42 with Flock contracts. Among the eight agencies named as allowing nationwide law-enforcement searches of their cameras is Jefferson County — whose sheriff's office has policed Morrison since January.CBS News Colorado[7]
January 2, 2026Vinelli starts as chief of police in Walsenburg, Colorado, hired while still under investigation by Morrison, after disclosing the allegations at a public hearing.CBS News Colorado; KOAA[4]
February–March 2026Denver ends its Flock contract and removes all of its cameras, roughly 110, switching to Axon. The removal is the state's most visible proof that a city can walk away.9News, Denverite[8]
April 29, 2026The state legislature kills SB26-070, the bipartisan bill that would have set warrant, audit, retention and sharing rules for every ALPR network in Colorado. The rules that govern whatever remains of Morrison's program are whatever its contract says.Colorado Newsline[9]
August 7, 2026Town Manager Mallory Nassau's last day, after two years in the role; she cites professional reasons and says the town's budget crisis, brought to light in April, did not drive the decision. Every official named or implied in the Flock paperwork's signature and contact blocks has now left town government.Canyon Courier[10]
September 8 & 21, 2026Englewood's council votes to end its Flock contract; Lakewood's council votes unanimously not to renew its 16-camera contract, the first vote Lakewood ever took on it. Two neighboring cities reach, in public, the question Morrison's record shows no elected body ever taking up.The Gazette; Lakewood council recording[11][12]
By January 9, 2027This site's arithmetic: counted from the signature date, the current 12-month renewal ends February 8, 2027, and 30 days' non-renewal notice would be due by January 9, 2027. The contract ties its real start to “first installation and validation,” a date the record does not contain, so the true deadline may be later, never earlier. And on any date at all, either party may terminate for convenience at $500 per camera.Computed from the agreement's terms[1]
The step that is not on this timeline

Between the signature in February 2023 and today there is no documented public step about the cameras at all: no installation date, no Board of Trustees item, no invoice, no policy, and — most strikingly — no statement of what happened to the contract when the department that signed it was dissolved. The Program page lays out what that silence means and the records request that would end it.

Citations

Sources for this page

  1. Flock Group Inc. / CO - Morrison PD, Services Agreement: Order Form with Government Agency Agreement, signed February 8, 2023 (22 pp.). PDF, 0.6 MBThe February 2025 and January/February 2027 dates are this site's arithmetic from the form's 24-month subscription term, 12-month renewal terms, 30-day notice clause and signature date. The January 23, 2023 generation date is the PDF's own creation metadata.
  2. “Morrison to disband police department over budget concerns,” Colorado Public Radio, December 5, 2024; “Morrison Police Department to disband after town board vote,” Denver Gazette, December 2024. cpr.org · denvergazette.com
  3. “Jefferson County Sheriff's Office to take over policing for Town of Morrison,” 9News; “Details on disbanding: Jefferson County Sheriff's Office will police Morrison for foreseeable future,” Denver7. 9news.com · denver7.com
  4. “Police chief in Colorado Town of Morrison placed on administrative leave, investigation underway,” CBS News Colorado, November 2024; “Morrison police chief on paid administrative leave,” Colorado Community Media, November 12, 2024; “Former Morrison chief of police takes new job in Colorado, Bill Vinelli will be Walsenburg's new chief,” CBS News Colorado, January 2026; “City of Walsenburg names police chief under investigation by previous department,” KOAA. cbsnews.com · coloradocommunitymedia.com · cbsnews.com · koaa.comThe January 2022 hire date and the three-decades biography are as reported by CBS from the town's own materials. Allegations described at the Walsenburg hearing are allegations, not findings.
  5. “Morrison hires Golden native as new town manager,” Colorado Community Media, June 14, 2024. coloradocommunitymedia.com
  6. “Morrison's new speed cameras seem to be working,” CPR News, June 10, 2024; “Morrison's speed camera ticketed more than 10,000 drivers in its first two weeks,” Denver7. cpr.org · denver7.comPhoto-radar speed enforcement, not Flock and not an ALPR investigative database; included as context on the town's automated-enforcement footprint.
  7. Shaun Boyd, “Crime fighter or mass surveillance? In Colorado, license plate readers are high-tech and widespread,” CBS News Colorado, September 22, 2025. cbsnews.comThe named agencies allowing nationwide search were Arvada, Aurora, Greeley, Lafayette, Northglenn, Jefferson County, Summit County and Westminster; the survey covered only agencies that provided data.
  8. “Denver removes all 110 Flock license plate reader cameras as contract expires,” 9News; “Denver fires Flock, prepares to switch to new roadway surveillance system,” Denverite, February 24, 2026. 9news.com · denverite.com
  9. “Colorado lawmakers kill bill to limit police use of Flock camera data,” Colorado Newsline, April 29, 2026. coloradonewsline.com
  10. “Morrison town manager Nassau resigns after two years,” Canyon Courier, July 30, 2026. canyoncourier.com
  11. Nicholas Fogleman, “Ditch or switch? Colorado governments decide fate of Flock cameras,” The Gazette, September 25, 2026. gazette.com
  12. City of Lakewood, City Council meeting of September 21, 2026, official meeting recording. youtube.comUnanimous vote not to renew; Lakewood's Flock agreement then terminates January 30, 2027. See also the sister site, deflocklakewood.com.