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Longmont council pauses sharing of Flock Safety data, directs staff to seek alternatives
Summary
After hours of public comment critical of Flock Safety, the Longmont City Council voted 5-1 on Dec. 9, 2025 to pause sharing Flock data outside the city, halt expansions or renewals, and direct staff to return with alternative options by March 2026.
Longmont 's City Council voted on Dec. 9, 2025 to pause external sharing of data collected by Flock Safety and to seek alternative ways to meet the city's traffic- and investigative-technology needs.
The amended direction, carried by a 5-1 vote, instructs the city manager to stop sharing Longmont's Flock data outside the city effective Dec. 10, decline any future expansions or renewals of Flock infrastructure, and return to council with options for replacement technologies and contract analyses by March 2026. The transcript records Council Member Christ (also shown as "Crist" in one vote annotation) as the lone dissenting vote.
Why it mattered: dozens of Longmont residents filled the public-comment period to criticize Flock and similar automatic license plate reader systems, arguing they are insecure, prone to error and allow warrantless, dragnet-style searches. Speakers pointed to published incidents in other jurisdictions, investigator…
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