Renewal upcoming
Who approved this?
No source names who approved this contract. That gap is common where a purchase cleared without a council vote.
Bartlett has used Flock cameras for about 4 years and has 15 of them in place. The Committee of the Whole listed item 2026-04, Flock Contract Discussion, on its August 18, 2026 agenda. The proposal is a 1 year extension covering 7 of the 15 devices at 65,500 dollars, a figure the village said would be recalculated, plus 5 new cameras that Village Administrator Paula Schumacher said the board showed little appetite for. Police Chief Ryan Conway said the cameras have been used appropriately and that audits found the department fully compliant. The village pays for the cameras with federal equitable sharing money from asset seizures rather than local taxes. The board put off the decision to September 15, 2026, so there is no approval and no roll call to record. The village has not published an approval date, amount or term for the original contract, and its August 18 board minutes are a scanned image with no readable text.
Renewal date pending
The contract end date has not yet been confirmed from records.
The money
- Contract amount: $65,500
- Cameras: 15
- Contract amount per camera: $4,367 for a 12-month term
- Term: 12 months
- Funding source: Asset forfeiture
What happens next
Last scheduled meeting: September 15, 2026; outcome pending verification.
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
- Daily Herald report on the Bartlett board discussion of the Flock extension and its equitable sharing funding (August 20, 2026) dailyherald.com
- Daily Herald report on Bartlett postponing the renewal vote to September 15, 2026 (August 28, 2026) dailyherald.com
Last verified: September 8, 2026. Something wrong? Request a correction.
The record
Bartlett Village Board of Trustees approved this Flock contract; the sources give no date. Bartlett Police Department operates the program.
The stated price: $65,500. Term length: 1 year. Cameras: 15. That comes to about $4,367 per camera. Funding: Federal equitable sharing money from asset seizures rather than village tax revenue, according to the village..
The contract is in force.
2 sources back this record; each is listed with its date under Sources. Last verified September 8, 2026. More from the state: the Illinois hub. Everything: the tracker.
Cite this record
Who Approved This, "Bartlett, IL Flock Contract," whoapprovedthis.org, accessed October 8, 2026, https://whoapprovedthis.org/city/il-bartlett/.
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- Camera locations near Bartlett: DeFlock (external, crowdsourced)
- Agency transparency portal, if published: transparency.flocksafety.com; aggregated at Eyes on Flock