Updated August 4, 2026. This post now carries the whole growth record; 4 earlier snapshot posts redirect here.
The tracker holds 1,044 verified Flock Safety contract records across 48 states as of October 10, 2026, with $165.0 million in documented public spending, 417 records carrying a stated amount, 172 documented roll calls, and 332 documented endings. It got there in about 5 weeks, and each threshold surfaced something the smaller dataset could not show.
76 records: the shape of the money
The first batches went after the biggest deals, and they set the range the tracker still works inside. DeKalb County, Georgia approved 18 million dollars over 10 years on September 23, 2025, which remains the largest single figure on the site. Johnson City, Tennessee listed 8,063,000 dollars in its commission agenda. Oakland, California approved a 2-year, 2,252,500-dollar agreement on December 16, 2025. At that size the tracker also picked up its first cluster of endings, including 5 Wisconsin communities that stopped between April and July.
158 records: state law starts deciding
By mid-July the dataset was large enough to show statutes doing work. The Spokane County and Pierce County sheriffs both shut their networks down citing Washington Senate Bill 6002, which is the first time 2 records moved for the same legal reason on the same week. Douglas County, Colorado approved a 22.8 million dollar Axon system to replace its Flock network, the clearest documented case of a switch rather than an ending.
159 records: the map fills in
Delaware joined on July 17, and the arithmetic of coverage changed. Once a state has 1 record the question stops being whether cameras are there and starts being how many contracts remain undocumented. 4 states still hold no record, and each of those gaps is a research target rather than a conclusion.
200 records: the approval paths separate
At 200 the dataset was big enough to compare how contracts arrive. Council votes, consent agendas, sub-threshold purchases, cooperative contracts, and grant awards all appear, and only the first leaves names behind. That gap is what the officials index makes visible, and it is why the index stays far shorter than the record count.
250 records: the biggest cities arrive
The stretch to 250 changed the tracker’s shape twice over. The campus class grew from 12 records to 20, including 2 documented endings: UW-Madison let its contract lapse, and Kent State ended its trial after student feedback. Arkansas went from 1 record to 5. And the largest cities entered the dataset, with Houston approving up to 6.4 million dollars for 318 leased cameras and Dallas signing a 3-year, 5.7 million dollar contract recorded in council resolution 25-0807.
Past 250: endings outpace additions in the news
The most recent stretch added Los Angeles, whose police department let a 138-camera agreement lapse in June 2026, and Harrisonburg, Virginia, which voted 4 to 0 on July 28 to stop its cameras within 7 days. Both arrived through documents rather than tips, which is now the main channel: the news-visible layer of this story is largely captured, and further growth comes from minutes, resolutions, and procurement records that nobody has written about.
What a milestone actually measures
Not how many cameras exist. A record count measures what governments have published and what has been verified against those publications. When the count jumps, it usually means a research pass found a new document channel, like the small-city agenda platforms that produced Choctaw’s full roll call in a single pass. When it stalls, it usually means the remaining contracts sit in records nobody has requested yet.
Track the current totals on the states page, follow what is scheduled on the calendar, or take the whole dataset from the data page.
Find your city. The tracker lists every documented Flock contract, the vote that approved it, and the renewal date. Alerts email you before the next decision.