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Sarah Medary outlined what the city of Eugene has asked Flock Safety to do after canceling the contract for license-plate reader technology, though the company hasn’t responded.
The Eugene city manager shared more details on Monday about the city’s termination of its contract with Flock Safety for automated license-plate reader cameras.
Sarah Medary read directly from the termination notice at a City Council meeting. She said it asks Flock Safety — the surveillance technology company that owns and operates the 57 cameras installed in Eugene in May — to take the following actions:
- Remove the Flock cameras.
- Remove all cameras and associated hardware, no later than Dec. 12, 2025.
- Return the city data.
- Cooperate with the city of Eugene staff to provide for the return of any existing customer data, customer-generated data and anonymized data in the possession of Flock group, no later than Dec. 12, 2025.
- Delete the city data.
- After making provisions for the return of city data, immediately delete any and all copies of customer data, customer generated data and anonymized data no later than Dec. 17, 2025.
- Refund advanced costs.
- Cooperate with city of Eugene staff to determine the appropriate prorated refund for automated license-plate reader contract costs already paid by the city of Eugene no later than Dec. 12, 2025, and issue the applicable prorated refund no later than Dec. 17, 2025.
Medary said Flock hasn’t replied to the termination notice, and she doesn’t know if the requested actions are possible. She didn’t say when it was sent.
The city’s contract with Flock states that when the contract ends, Flock must remove its cameras and other equipment at a “commercially reasonable time,” as agreed upon by both parties.
Eugene can end the contract immediately and without prior notice if Flock fails to keep required insurance, violates city “security requirements,” loses or fails to maintain necessary licenses or certifications, or “for any reason considered by the City to be in the public interest,” the contract states.
Under the contract, if the city terminates the contract, it has to pay Flock only for the work that was finished before the termination date. For any work that’s only partly completed, the city and Flock can mutually agree on an appropriate payment amount.
“This is in no way a statement against (automated license-plate reader cameras),” Medary said. “For me, I still believe it is technology we should consider, and I’m glad you’re having a work session about that and other policies. It is a statement about our experience with the Flock company.”
Medary said she wasn’t inclined to cover the cameras, as did Springfield after ending its own Flock contract on Friday.
“That suggests that they can stay longer, and I’d actually like them to be removed,” she said.
Councilor Randy Groves asked Medary if she knows of any costs associated with potentially having to pay back a portion of the state grant that funded the cameras.
In response, Medary said: “We’re still working on that.”
It’s unclear what prompted the city’s abrupt severing of ties with Flock, which the Eugene Police Department announced in a news release on Friday, Dec. 5, at 7:20 p.m., citing system “vulnerabilities and limitations.”
“What did they discover? Did ICE access our community’s data?” resident Geoffrey Gordon asked during public comment at the meeting. “On behalf of the citizens of Eugene, I demand a thorough explanation of what they found.”
Medary has previously said: “We need the community to trust we are making decisions and deploying tools and technology that protect with integrity. We’ve been working on policy updates and contract changes to try and ensure that and ultimately could not get there.”
