Every figure below comes from the Oregon records on this tracker, read on August 6, 2026, and from the text of Senate Bill 1516.
Oregon held 8 Flock records on August 6, 2026, and 7 of them had stopped. 6 were cancelled, 1 was suspended, and the eighth had never had its first vote. Oregon is also the only state in this group whose legislature passed a plate reader law, and it did so on March 31, 2026, in the middle of the exits.
What Senate Bill 1516 actually requires
Governor Tina Kotek signed SB 1516 on March 31, 2026. It took effect immediately under an emergency clause. The 16-page law rode inside a bipartisan public safety package, and it is the first framework Oregon has had that covers the whole technology.
The core limits are specific. Plate data may be kept 30 days unless it is tied to a criminal inquiry or a court proceeding. Officers must log the purpose of each search and the crime or violation being investigated. Agencies may not use the technology in a way that violates Oregon’s sanctuary laws, which already bar state and local police from assisting federal immigration enforcement without a court order.
Out-of-state agencies get access limited to information relevant to a stated law enforcement purpose rather than open or ongoing access, and the sharing agency must log which agency asked and how many cameras were reached. Vendors must deliver monthly and quarterly audits, and those audits must be publicly available, listing unique vehicles captured, what was searched, why, and for which agencies.
Two limits are worth naming plainly. The law requires end-to-end encryption without defining it, which Ky Fireside, a member of the plate reader workgroup convened by Senator Floyd Prozanski, called the most dangerous gap in the bill. And enforcement runs through a private right of action: an Oregonian may sue a vendor that acts intentionally or with gross negligence in selling, disclosing, or sharing the data. Fireside noted that leaves an individual needing a lawyer willing to work on contingency.
What prompted it
Testimony filed with the legislature by the Oregon Law Center reported that in June 2025 agencies outside Oregon searched Oregon local law enforcement networks hundreds of times on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A University of Washington report in October 2025 found U.S. Border Patrol had access to at least 10 Washington police department databases without explicit authorization, a finding Oregon legislators cited alongside their own.
Senator Prozanski, a Eugene Democrat who chairs Senate Judiciary, framed the risk as multiple agencies signing contracts without data protections, opening a path for other entities to reach the material for purposes not lawful in Oregon.
The exits, and how each one happened
Eugene is the largest documented Oregon deployment at 57 cameras and is now cancelled. Before the city stopped, local authorities confirmed a Flock camera in the area had been switched on after the city had ordered the cameras shut down. The ACLU and a Eugene resident sued the city in October 2025 for the camera records.
Bend cancelled a 4-camera contract with a recorded end date of May 31, 2026, after turning the cameras off in January. Albany ended its contract through its city council. Springfield and Woodburn and Lincoln City all read Canceled, with city government named as the deciding body on Springfield and no body named on the other two.
Talent is the one suspension. It runs 4 cameras on grant money and the agreement stands while the cameras are stopped, which leaves a clock running that a cancellation would have closed.
The one decision still ahead
West Linn is the only Oregon record at Pending first vote. Its council has not yet taken a first decision, which makes it the only Oregon jurisdiction that would be adopting this technology under SB 1516 rather than adapting to it.
What the file still needs
Not one Oregon record carries a dollar figure. Not one carries an approval date. Only 3 carry a camera count, and 4 name no approving body. Oregon is the most complete departure story in the dataset and the least documented on money, which is the opposite of what a reader would expect.
SB 1516 may change that. The audits it requires are public by law and list what was searched and for whom. The Oregon hub lists every record live, and the records request guide names the office to ask for the contract figures the file is missing.
Find your city. The tracker lists every documented Flock contract, the vote that approved it, and the renewal date. Alerts email you before the next decision.