Fontana, CA Flock Contract

Who approved this?

Approved on the consent agenda, without discussion, by Fontana City Council.

Fontana Police Department brought file 21-3479 to the City Council consent calendar on December 10, 2024, asking to buy Flock Safety automatic license plate recognition equipment on a 60 month contract for 642,750 dollars. Staff used a non-competitive single source method and piggybacked on a City of Santa Monica request for proposals from January 2024 that had also awarded Flock Safety. The item text puts the money in Federal Assets Seizure Funds, fund 223, through a first quarter fiscal year 2024/2025 budget adjustment. An earlier consent item, file 21-2746, covered 15 Flock Safety Falcon cameras at 50,750 dollars from the same asset seizure fund plus 45,000 dollars a year in recurring cost from General Fund 101. That item carries a Legistar agenda date of January 23, 2024, while the December staff report says the council approved the 15 cameras in April 2024, and both dates are recorded here as the documents state them. The contract text lists 30 day data storage, solar power, LTE connectivity and unlimited users, and says additional cameras would be requested as needed. Fontana publishes no action history, no vote tally and no minutes file in its Legistar record for either item, so no approval date or roll call is given. The camera count shown is 15, the only count the documents print, and it belongs to the earlier approval rather than to the 642,750 dollar contract.