Canceled
Who approved this?
Approved by Windsor Town Council.
The town council voted in July 2026 to end the contract, and its 16 cameras come down by fall. Mayor Nuchette Black-Burke said the cameras are already off: this tool is important, the vendor is not what we want. A records request by resident Eric Weiner showed the network was searched 590,000 times over 9 weeks starting in April 2025. Weiner is gathering signatures for an ordinance that would ban plate readers in town. The town's fact sheet states that Windsor has 16 Flock cameras installed throughout town for a total annual cost of $48,000, at $3,000 per camera per year including installation, software and maintenance, paid from $18,000 in General Fund dollars and $30,000 in non-tax dollars. The town posts the Flock lease agreement itself, but it is a scanned image with no readable text. No record of an original Town Council vote approving the contract appears in the town's agenda archive. What is on record is the end of it. On July 6, 2026 Councilor Pelkey moved and Councilor Gluck Hoffman seconded a motion to reactivate the cameras and renew the annual contract with Flock Safety, and it failed 4 to 5, with Mayor Black-Burke, Deputy Mayor Klase and Councilors Armstrong, Naeem and King opposed.
Windsor ended its Flock contract
Contract ended a date pending records.
The money
- Contract amount: $48,000
- Cameras: 16
- Contract amount per camera: $3,000
What happens next
This decision already happened in public; the record and its sources are above. If the community revisits the question, that decision would follow the same public process: a noticed meeting, public comment, and a recorded outcome, all through official channels.
Sources
- Town of Windsor Flock Safety License Plate Reader fact sheet windsorct.gov
- NBC Connecticut: 2 Connecticut towns end contracts with Flock Safety (July 15, 2026) nbcconnecticut.com
- Agency transparency portal: 16 cameras, 30-day retention (July 24, 2026) transparency.flocksafety.com
- WFSB: Killingworth and Windsor pulling Flock license plate cameras over privacy concerns (July 17, 2026) wfsb.com
Last verified: August 20, 2026. Something wrong? Request a correction.
The record
Windsor Town Council approved it; the sources give no date. It passed as a council vote item. Windsor Police Department runs the cameras.
The documented amount is $48,000. The agency reports 16 cameras. That comes to about $3,000 per camera. Images purge after 30 days. Funding came through $18,000 in General Fund dollars and $30,000 in non-tax dollars toward the annual lease fee.
The status reads canceled.
4 sources back this record; each is listed with its date under Sources. Last verified August 20, 2026. Every Connecticut record is listed on the Connecticut hub; the tracker lists all of them.
Cite this record
Who Approved This, "Windsor, CT Flock Contract," whoapprovedthis.org, accessed October 10, 2026, https://whoapprovedthis.org/city/ct-windsor/.
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- Camera locations near Windsor: DeFlock (external, crowdsourced)
- Agency transparency portal, if published: transparency.flocksafety.com; aggregated at Eyes on Flock