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Civic participation

How to take action before the contract renews itself

Nobody has to vote for Arvada's Flock contract to continue. It renews on its own around December 9, 2026 unless the city gives 30 days' written notice, which puts the effective decision date around November 9, 2026.[1] If you want a say before then, the ordinary tools of local government are all you need: an email, a phone call, three minutes at a microphone. This page lays them out, with every name, date and number taken from the city's own published sources.

Ground rules

Everything on this page is lawful, ordinary civic participation, and that is the only kind this site encourages. The contact information below is official contact information the City of Arvada publishes on its own website for exactly this purpose: hearing from residents. Use it civilly, on the official channels, about the policy. Do not contact anyone at home, do not harass anyone, and do not touch the cameras — they are property, and tampering with them is a crime that would also hand the program its best argument. The people named here are public officials acting in their official capacities; nothing on this site alleges unlawful conduct by any of them.

Why now

The clock that is running

until November 9, 2026, the last day the city can give the 30 days’ written notice that stops the Flock contract from renewing itself around December 9.[1]

The notice window has closed. Unless the city gave written notice by November 9, the contract renewed around December 9, 2026 for another year at $47,500.[1]

Both dates are this site’s arithmetic from the contract’s terms, counted to the end of November 9 in Arvada’s own time zone; the contract itself names no calendar dates.

The 2025 Master Services Agreement runs twelve months from December 9, 2025 and “will automatically renew for no more than four successive renewal terms” unless either side gives notice “at least thirty (30) days prior to the end of the then-current term.” Non-renewal needs only that written notice, and the contract does not say who in the city must give it. Ending the contract mid-term “in the public interest” is harder: it requires a City Council resolution at a business meeting.[1]

So the practical sequence is: the question either gets raised at a council business meeting this fall, or the contract renews by default in December and the next $47,500 is committed. As of September 29, 2026, the city's published council calendar shows two business meetings — October 6 and October 20 — before the arithmetic notice date of November 9.[2] Neighboring cities have shown both outcomes are possible: Lakewood's council voted unanimously on September 21, 2026 not to renew its 16-camera Flock contract,[7] and Denver ended its Flock contract in February 2026.[8]

The short list

Five things a resident can do

In rough order of effort. The first two fit inside a lunch break.

1. Email or call your councilmembers Say you are an Arvada resident, name your district, and ask for three specific things: put the Flock contract on a business-meeting agenda before November 9; decide the renewal in public rather than by default; and if the city keeps the program, adopt the guardrails in writing that it currently promises only in slides. Short and civil beats long and heated. Addresses are below. 10 minutes
2. Speak at public comment Business meetings take public comment twice: up to 3 minutes early in the meeting on any topic, and up to 5 minutes near the end. Sign up when you arrive at Council Chambers, 8101 Ralston Road. The confirmed dates before the notice deadline are October 6 and October 20, 6 p.m. One evening
3. Submit written comment The city's Written Public Comment form goes to all councilmembers and the Mayor; comments tied to a hearing and submitted before 5 p.m. on a meeting day become part of the permanent record. If you cannot attend, this is the paper trail that outlives the evening. This card opens the city's form directly. 5 minutes
4. Put your questions to the police department Every Flock contract in the CORA release was signed by the chief of police, and non-renewal notice is not written as council's job alone — so the department can be asked directly whether it intends to renew, and who will decide. The Office of the Chief's published number is below. One call
5. File your own records request CORA requests go through the city's JustFOIA portal (City Clerk: 720-898-7550). Still unreleased, per this site's release: the Falcon Flex agreement, any camera location list, and the audit logs of who has searched Arvada's data. The more requesters, the harder the silence is to keep. 15 minutes

Direct link: the city’s Written Public Comment form. Sources for the comment rules, form, and portal: the city's own City Council Meetings and Records pages.[4][6] What is still unreleased: Records.

The calendar

Council meetings between now and the renewal

All City Council meetings are Tuesdays at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada, CO 80002. Only business meetings take public comment; workshops can be watched via Zoom but have no comment period.[2][4]

Arvada City Council meetings, September 29 – December 2026. Published dates are from the city's CivicClerk portal as of September 29, 2026; the city had not yet posted November or December.
Date	Meeting	Public comment?	Status
Tue, Oct 6, 2026	City Council Business Meeting	Yes: 3 min early, 5 min late	Published by the city[2]
Tue, Oct 13, 2026	City Council Workshop	—	Canceled, per the city's portal[2]
Tue, Oct 20, 2026	City Council Business Meeting	Yes: 3 min early, 5 min late	Published by the city.[2] Last published business meeting before the ~Nov 9 notice date.
Tue, Oct 27, 2026	City Council Workshop	No (watch via Zoom)	Published by the city[2]
Tue, Nov 3, 2026	Business meeting, by the regular pattern	If held	Not yet posted; it is also Election Day, so confirm before going
Tue, Nov 17, 2026	Business meeting, by the regular pattern	If held	Not yet posted. Falls after the ~Nov 9 notice date
Tue, Dec 1 & Dec 15, 2026	Business meetings, by the regular pattern	If held	Not yet posted. The contract's first term ends around Dec 9[1]

What this table is not

The November and December rows are this site's projection from the council's regular rhythm — business meetings on the first and third Tuesdays, workshops on the others — not city announcements. The city posts the authoritative calendar and agendas on its CivicClerk portal and its City Council Meetings page; check there before making an evening of it. Meetings stream live and are broadcast on Comcast/TDS channel 8 (880 in HD).[4]

Who decides

Arvada City Council

Seven members. The contract's only public-interest exit runs through their resolution, and a renewal decision made in public would be made at their meeting.[1] Contact details are as published on the city's own council pages, September 29, 2026.[3]

Arvada City Council, as sworn in November 11, 2025, with the contact information each member's official city bio page publishes.
Member	Seat	City email	Published phone
Lauren Simpson	Mayor	[email protected]	720-961-3779
Randy Moorman	Mayor Pro Tem · District 1	[email protected]	720-772-6651
Shawna Ambrose	District 2	[email protected]	970-425-3060
Rebecka Lovisone	District 3	[email protected]	—
Bob Fifer	District 4	[email protected]	303-929-4278
Sharon Davis	At-Large	[email protected]	720-450-4825
Michael Griffith	At-Large	[email protected]	—

To reach the whole council at once: [email protected], or City Hall at 720-898-7000 (8 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday through Friday).[3] A dash above means the member's city bio page lists no direct number; the at-large members and the Mayor answer to the whole city, so every resident has at least three representatives regardless of district.

Worth knowing when you write: the record shows council has already engaged once. A councilmember's written questions about ALPR misuse elsewhere in Colorado prompted the chief's December 2025 memo, and the February 10, 2026 workshop that followed is the only council session on the program to date.[5] The questions a resident asks now — who decides the renewal, where the audit logs are, why a 60-day pilot ran 32 months — land on ground council has already walked.

Who signed

The police department

Every Flock document in the CORA release was signed for the city by Chief of Police Edward “Ed” Brady.[1] The department publishes these contacts on its own “Contact the Arvada Police” page:[9]

Office of the Chief of Police: 720-898-6650
Public Information Office: 720-898-6654
Records Unit: 720-898-6920
Non-emergency dispatch: 303-980-7300
In writing: Arvada Police Department, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada, CO 80002

Reasonable questions for the department, all grounded in its own documents: Does APD intend to let the contract renew in December, and who makes that call? Where are the audit reports PM 460 says “should” happen “on a regular basis”? And is access to Arvada's camera network still limited to Colorado agencies “only,” as the chief told council in December 2025 — a claim no released record reconciles with the September 2025 CBS report that agencies nationwide could search Arvada's cameras?[5]

Go prepared

Three minutes is enough, if it is specific

The strongest public comment is not an opinion about surveillance in general. It is a resident asking their own city a question it has not answered. This site exists so you do not have to take anyone's word for the facts:

The contracts, clause by clause The unanswered questions The documents themselves

Statewide organizing, including an Arvada page with its own call to action, is at eyesoffcolorado.org, an independent project not affiliated with this site.

Citations

Sources for this page

City of Arvada / Flock Group Inc., Master Services Agreement with Exhibits A–E, signed December 3 and 9, 2025, obtained under CORA. PDFRenewal p. 11 and 27; termination §7.2.3–7.2.4 p. 12–13; signatures p. 23 and 29. The December 9, 2026 renewal date and November 9, 2026 notice date are this site's arithmetic from the contract's terms.
City of Arvada, CivicClerk public meeting portal, City Council events September 29 – December 31, 2026, queried September 29, 2026. arvadaco.portal.civicclerk.comMeeting names, dates, 6 p.m. start times, the October 13 cancellation, and the Council Chambers address are the portal's; no November or December events were yet published.
City of Arvada, City Council page and individual councilmember bio pages, accessed September 29, 2026. arvadaco.gov/157Roster and seats per the city's “About City Council” page following the November 11, 2025 swearing-in; each email and direct phone number is as published on that member's own city bio page; [email protected] and 720-898-7000 per the council page.
City of Arvada, City Council Meetings page, accessed September 29, 2026. arvadaco.gov/161Public-comment structure (3-minute early comment, hearing testimony, 5-minute late comment, sign-up on arrival), workshops via Zoom without comment, cable channels, and the written-comment form, which is linked from that page.
Arvada Police Department memo of December 22, 2025 and Feb 10, 2026 council workshop packet, CivicClerk event 2091, obtained from the city's portal. Packet; CBS News Colorado, September 22, 2025. cbsnews.comThe memo was prompted by a councilmember's written ALPR questions; the “only” claim and the CBS finding are laid out, with the unresolved conflict marked, on the home page and Policies.
City of Arvada, Records and Requests page and JustFOIA public portal, accessed September 29, 2026. arvadaco.gov/247; arvadaco.justfoia.comCity Clerk: 720-898-7550, 8101 Ralston Road.
City of Lakewood, City Council meeting of September 21, 2026, official meeting recording. youtube.comUnanimous vote not to renew; Lakewood's Flock agreement then terminates January 30, 2027.
“Denver fires Flock, prepares to switch to new roadway surveillance system,” Denverite, February 24, 2026. denverite.com
City of Arvada, “Contact the Arvada Police Department,” accessed September 29, 2026. arvadaco.gov/203

Contact information changes; the city's pages are authoritative if they and this page ever disagree. Corrections are welcome: corrections policy.