Every figure below comes from the Colorado records on this tracker, read on August 6, 2026.
Colorado held 8 Flock records on August 6, 2026, with the widest spread of approval paths of any state on this site. One contract cleared on a mayor’s signature under a spending threshold. One passed as a city ordinance worth $4.5 million. One runs out of a city manager’s office with no vote on record. Colorado is also one of the few states with a statute that touches the data.
Denver, and the number just under the line
Denver is the clearest documented case on the site of a contract routed around a council. Council members unanimously rejected a 2-year, $666,000 extension in May 2025. The mayor’s office then signed a shorter extension priced at $498,500, which sits just under the $500,000 threshold at which a Denver contract requires council approval.
The record names the Office of the Mayor as the approving body and October 22, 2025 as the approval date, when the office extended again to March 2026. It covered 111 cameras. The contract is now recorded as Canceled with an end date of March 31, 2026. Audit logs published in August 2025 showed Denver camera data had been searched more than 1,400 times for immigration enforcement through a national lookup feature that Denver police said they were unaware of and disabled in April 2025.
Commerce City, the largest contract in the state file
Commerce City holds the biggest Colorado number by a wide margin: $4,560,478 covering 78 cameras, passed as an ordinance on second and final reading on April 6, 2026. It had advanced on a 6 to 3 vote at first reading in March. That 9-member roll call is one of only two Colorado entries on the officials index, and its rows record members in aggregate rather than by name.
Castle Rock is the second documented amount at $600,000 for 32 cameras, near $18,750 per camera across the contract. Those two records are the only Colorado entries carrying a dollar figure besides Denver.
Boulder, where no vote appears at all
Boulder runs 31 cameras through the city manager’s office, and the record names no council action. Longmont names its city council as the approving body but carries no amount, no camera count, and no date. Aurora runs the largest camera network in the state file at 117 and names no approving body whatsoever.
Those three together are why Colorado matters to the approval-path question. The state has more cameras documented than dollars, and the largest deployment on the list arrived with no vote on the record.
Douglas County left Flock for a bigger contract
Douglas County is the only ending in the Colorado file, and it did not end in a cancellation for cost or privacy. The county commissioners approved a $22.8 million Axon system on July 15, 2026 to replace the Flock network. Leaving one vendor cost roughly 5 times what the largest Flock contract in the state is worth.
Colorado does have a statute, and it is not an ALPR statute
Colorado appears on the National Conference of State Legislatures list of 16 states with a law touching this technology, through Colo. Rev. Stat. section 24-72-113, enacted in 2014. It requires that video or still images obtained by passive surveillance by a governmental entity be destroyed within 3 years of recording.
The limits are worth stating precisely. The custodian may only reach a passive surveillance record after the first anniversary of its creation if a notice of claim has been filed, or an accident or specific incident may make it evidence in a civil, labor, administrative, or felony criminal proceeding. It sets no rule on sharing, no audit requirement, and no cap on who may search. A 3-year destruction window is also far longer than the 30 days most agency policies on this site describe.
What the file still needs
Five of 8 Colorado records carry no amount, 6 carry no approval date, and 3 name no approving body. the University of Colorado Boulder runs 12 cameras with none of those 3 facts documented. Only Commerce City and Denver record anything resembling a vote.
The Colorado hub lists every record live. How to Read a Week of Flock Decisions explains why a purchase under a threshold leaves no roll call to publish.
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