Naperville, IL Flock Contract

Who approved this?

Approved 9-0 by Naperville City Council on May 16, 2023.

The Naperville City Council approved file 23-0495 on May 16, 2023, awarding Sole Source Procurement 23-098 for license plate recognition camera technology to Flock Safety. The award is capped at 684,300 dollars for a five year term running June 30, 2023 through June 30, 2028 and covers 52 cameras. Funding is split between 72,500 dollars budgeted in calendar year 2023, 69,300 dollars from the Illinois Attorney General Organized Retail Crime grant, and the remainder from departmental budget adjustments. Legistar records the result as pass but stores no vote tally and no council member names, and the file text sets no retention period, audit right, sharing limit or reporting duty. On September 1, 2026 the council rejected a separate 8.3 million dollar proposal that would have replaced about 200 existing cameras and added 270 more, with only Mayor Scott Wehrli and Councilman Ian Holzhauer in favor and Councilman Patrick Kelly absent. Councilman Josh McBroom and Councilwoman Mary Gibson opposed it, and McBroom said the city had not yet made its case given the scale and the short public review window. That rejection covers the expansion, not the 2023 award, which the record shows still running to June 30, 2028.