Snapshot as of July 27, 2026. Live counts are on the tracker.
Of the 227 contracts on the tracker, 14 records stated where the money comes from, and the rest did not. That gap is the headline: for most Flock contracts we have verified, the public record shows the approval but not the funding source.
The 14 that state a source break down as: 6 grants outside the federal pandemic programs, 4 general fund, 3 asset forfeiture, and 1 ARPA.
3 notable funded records: Milford, DE, the tracker’s newest record, runs its cameras on state grants under Delaware’s Flock Camera Program, per the mayor; Johnson City, TN pays year 1 of its $8 million contract from the Drug Fund; and Greenville pays through asset forfeiture, routing camera costs through seized property rather than a budget line.
Funding source matters because it decides who approves the next renewal: a general-fund subscription meets the council every budget year, a grant-funded camera can arrive without a local vote at all. The tracker records the source wherever a document states it. The dataset downloads as CSV or JSON.
Related: What a Flock camera costs and how the votes split.
Updated July 24, 2026: at 227 records the split holds. 14 records name a standard funding category in the export. Several records added in July state grant funding in their summaries, including Everett, WA, Edmonds, WA, El Paso, TX, San Francisco, CA, and College Station, TX.
Update, July 27, 2026: figures above date to the update note nearest them. Today the tracker holds 1,044 records with 172 documented roll calls.
The funds behind the contracts
Where the money comes from shapes what a council is really deciding. Dallas resolution 25-0807 splits its cap 3 ways: 3,922,914.61 dollars from the general fund, 1,690,500 dollars from a state catalytic converter grant, and 125,000 dollars from a 2023 federal Homeland Security fund. El Paso runs 150 cameras on a state grant of more than 700,000 dollars that expires in May 2026. Fort Worth paid from the general fund, a crime control district, and improvement districts together, so no single label fits its record.
Grant money lowers the bar twice
It lowers the bar to start, because a purchase that costs the city nothing this year is easier to approve. It also lowers the bar to stop: Edmonds ended a contract paid entirely by a 131,880-dollar state auto theft grant and wrote off no local money, while Lynnwood forfeited remaining value on a locally funded deal to leave early. Bandera, Texas shows the awkward middle: a 17,000-dollar contract mostly covered by a 14,000-dollar state grant, with the annual invoice already paid when the council voted 3 to 2 to terminate.
Why a third of records say Unknown
Funding appears in the record only when a document states it. News coverage almost never carries the fund line, so the funding source comes from resolutions, budget items, and grant awards, which is slower work. The whole funding breakdown recomputes on the tracker, and the data page defines each funding category.
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.