Decision Watch: Harrisonburg Ends It, Park Ridge Extends, LAPD Walks Away

The tracker slept through its busiest week of the summer; the records now carry all of it.

Harrisonburg, Virginia voted 4 to 0 on July 28 to end its contract. The resolution stopped the cameras within 7 days and bars any future fixed plate-reader system without a council vote at a public meeting and budget funding. Staunton, Charlottesville, and now Harrisonburg make 3 Shenandoah-corridor exits.

Park Ridge, Illinois went the other way on July 20: a 1-year, $24,000 extension passed 5 to 1, with Mayor Marty Maloney casting the deciding vote under the sole-source supermajority rule.

Binghamton, New York’s termination push ended without a vote. WSKG reported July 31 that cancel authority rests with the mayor, who intends to keep the contracts.

Two records joined from the sweep. Bandera, Texas terminated 3 to 2 on May 12 over a $17,000, 5-camera grant-funded deal, with all 5 votes named in local reporting. Los Angeles is the biggest name yet: the police department let its Flock agreement lapse in June over what its chief information officer called serious concerns around civil liberties, with 138 cameras idle while the 2 sides renegotiate.

Springfield, Illinois’s record now carries the clerk’s own recap: 83 cameras, $254,000 a year, and the amendment roll by name.

Still open: Oklahoma City’s renewal has no published date, Olympia’s lapsed term is pending records, and Columbus’s public hearing lands August 10 on the calendar.

Ending a contract, extending one, and walking away are three of the four recurring outcomes set out in How to Read a Week of Flock Decisions.

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