Lebanon, OH Flock Contract

Who approved this?

Approved 1-3 by Lebanon City Council on March 26, 2024.

The Lebanon City Council agenda for March 26, 2024 lists Resolution 2024-021, approving the city Automatic License Plate Recognition technology policy for the Lebanon Division of Police. The Dayton Daily News reported that council passed the measure 4 to 3, with Brad Lamoreaux, Matt Sellers and Breighton Smith voting against it. The same report names Flock as the vendor, puts the planned deployment at 20 stationary cameras, and gives a quote of about 68,000 dollars built from 3,000 dollars per camera plus 8,000 dollars for installation, against 70,000 dollars budgeted. Sellers said there is a fine line between the value of the tool and privacy, and Smith argued the cameras add to a growing local surveillance network. Smith also wanted the protections written into an ordinance rather than left as a policy. The vote approved the use policy, not a signed vendor agreement, and no contract document was reachable. Lebanon posts its council minutes as scanned images with no machine readable text, so the roll call here rests on the newspaper account and the agenda, and the 4 yes votes appear as one unnamed group.