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Sweetwater council authorizes police to apply for auto-theft grant to fund Flock license-plate cameras

Sweetwater City Council · April 15, 2026
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Summary

At its April 11 meeting the Sweetwater City Council approved a resolution allowing the police department to apply for a Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority 2027 auto-theft task force grant to fund a network of Flock license-plate reader cameras; police estimated the city’s share at roughly $10,000 a year with about $3,000 remaining after offsets.

The Sweetwater City Council voted April 11 to authorize the police department to submit an application for the Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority’s fiscal-year 2027 auto-theft task force grant, a matching program the department said would help pay for a stationary license-plate reader camera system.

Police Chief Strobel told the council the grant is an 80/20 matching award and described a proposed program of…

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