Perfect World

Surveillance procurement

Santa Clara

1 document on file, spanning 2021. The chain below starts with the original agreement; each document beneath it shows what it changed.

1
Documents on file
2021
First contract
12
Cameras contracted
Committed in these documents
Published findings

Told, enacted, signed

What the governing body was told before it voted, what it actually enacted, and what was signed — term by term. Click any value to read the passage it came from. A row marked silent is not a disagreement: it means only some of the three sources address that term at all, which is a different criticism and sometimes a fairer one.

21-1122 Flock Group Incorporated Agreement.pdf

Not on file: staff report, enactment. No ordinance or resolution authorising this contract has been located, so what the governing body approved cannot be compared against what was signed. That is a statement about the record we hold, not a finding that no vote occurred.

7 only one source2 nobody states
TermStaff reportEnactmentContractVerdict
Data retentionSilent
Plate readersSilent
Annual costSilent
Renews automaticallySilent
Addresses data sharingSilent
Sharing with othersSilent
Addresses federal accessSilent

No source addresses: total cost, term. Neither the briefing, the enactment nor the agreement puts these on the record.

The paper trail

  1. contractmachine-read

    21-1122 Flock Group Incorporated Agreement.pdf

    Vendor
    Flock Safety
    Cameras
    12
    Retention
    30 days
    Term
    Annual
    $30,000
    Total
    Auto-renews
    Yes
    Approved by
    City Council and Authorities Concurrent
    Signed by
    Funded by
    Not stated
    Bought via
    Not stated

The rest of the stack

2 systems named in this jurisdiction’s procurement documents, 2 of which are documented as integrating with FlockOS. Plate readers are one layer; what a camera network is worth to an agency depends on what it is plugged into.

Licence-plate readers

  • Flock SafetyFlockOS
    ess, destruction, use, modification or disclosure that are at least as protective as the "Flock Safety End to End Data Security Overview," "Flock Safety CJIS Compliance Overview," and "Flock Sthe document

Cameras and video management

  • GenetecFlockOS
    e Stadium in 2014. Stadium Manager is recommending an upgrade to the current Genetec Security Center and to procure additional Genetec software licenses including software sthe document

These are the systems named in the procurement documents we hold. A system listed here was written down in a document this jurisdiction published; that is not the same as a finding that the jurisdiction operates it, and a system missing from this list may simply have been bought under an item we have not read.

What we could not find

A gap means the record was not found on the jurisdiction's public portal. It is not a statement that the record does not exist, and it is not a statement about whether the jurisdiction operates ALPR.

Source portal: https://santaclara.legistar.com. Last swept 2026-08-31.