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Surveillance procurement

How Wisconsin Bought ALPR

Automated licence-plate readers arrive by a vote. This is the paper trail behind those votes across Wisconsin — 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.

2
Jurisdictions with a contract on file
5
Contracts and amendments
2022
Earliest contract found
$590,800
Committed in documents we hold
3 / 20
Portals swept

What we hold, jurisdiction by jurisdiction

JurisdictionPortalFirst contractDocumentsCamerasCommittedFindings
WaukeshaLegistar2023419$590,800
West AllisLegistar20221

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
MilwaukeecityLegistarSwept, nothing published
MadisoncityLegistarNot yet swept
Green BaycitycivicclerkNot yet swept
KenoshacityNo portal foundNot yet swept
RacinecityLegistarNot yet swept
AppletoncityNo portal foundNot yet swept
Eau ClairecityGranicusNot yet swept
OshkoshcityNo portal foundNot yet swept
JanesvillecityNo portal foundNot yet swept
La CrossecityNo portal foundNot yet swept
SheboygancityNo portal foundNot yet swept
WauwatosacityNo portal foundNot yet swept
Fond du LaccityGranicusNot yet swept
New BerlincitycivicclerkNot yet swept
WausaucitycivicclerkNot yet swept
BrookfieldcityCivicEngageNot yet swept
GreenfieldcitycivicclerkNot yet swept
BeloitcityGranicusNot 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.