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Surveillance procurement

How Kansas Bought ALPR

Automated licence-plate readers arrive by a vote. This is the paper trail behind those votes across Kansas — the original contracts, every renewal and amendment that followed, and the staff reports that were in front of the council when it decided. Where a staff report and the contract it accompanied describe different things, that comparison is set out here with both passages quoted.

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Jurisdictions with a contract on file
1
Contracts and amendments
2023
Earliest contract found
$273,349
Committed in documents we hold
1 / 11
Portals swept

What we hold, jurisdiction by jurisdiction

JurisdictionPortalFirst contractDocumentsCamerasCommittedFindings
OlatheLegistar20231$273,349

Where we have not found the record

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.

JurisdictionKindPortalStatus
WichitacityNo portal foundNot yet swept
Overland ParkcityNo portal foundNot yet swept
Kansas CitycityLegistarNot yet swept
TopekacityGranicusNot yet swept
LawrencecityCivicWebNot yet swept
ShawneecityNo portal foundNot yet swept
ManhattancityCivicEngageNot yet swept
LenexacitycivicclerkNot yet swept
SalinacityNo portal foundNot yet swept
HutchinsoncityNo portal foundNot yet swept

Documents are archived copies of what the jurisdiction published, kept because municipal portals do not use permanent links. Every figure shown is either quoted from a document or marked as not stated. A dash means the record does not say, which is never the same as zero.