Suspended
Who approved this?
No source names who approved this contract. That gap is common where a purchase cleared without a council vote.
The city’s cameras sit unusable under the Santa Clara County ban, Local News Matters and KQED reported. Saratoga has no active Legistar archive, its Granicus portal disallows all crawling, and every path below the city site root failed on roughly twenty attempts over an hour because the robots lookup times out. The city's agenda center, staff reports and any surveillance use policy item were never reached, so nothing is asserted about the January 23, 2024 policy approval that Santa Clara County records mention.
Use suspended
Camera use is suspended. The contract itself has not been reported terminated.
Not yet in the sources: the contract amount, the camera count, and the approval date. The city or county clerk holds the approval file, and the records request guide gives the wording to ask for it. If you already hold the document, send it in.
What happens next
Renewals are decided in public. Residents can attend the meeting, speak during public comment, and write to the office above through official channels. The ACLU publishes a model cancellation resolution officials can adapt.
Sources
- Local News Matters: cameras unusable under the county ban (February 3, 2026) localnewsmatters.org
- KQED: Santa Clara County leaders cut out Flock Safety in new surveillance policy kqed.org
Last verified: August 20, 2026. Something wrong? Request a correction.
The record
The sources do not say who approved this contract. Operating agency: Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.
The status reads suspended.
2 sources back this record; each is listed with its date under Sources. Last verified August 20, 2026. See the rest of California on the California hub, or browse the whole tracker.
Cite this record
Who Approved This, "Saratoga, CA Flock Contract," whoapprovedthis.org, accessed October 10, 2026, https://whoapprovedthis.org/city/ca-saratoga/.
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