Richmond Extends Flock Contract, Agrees to Turn Cameras Back On

Richmond's City Council voted 4-3 to extend its Flock contract and reactivate cameras that had been off since October 2025, when police discovered federal agencies had unauthorized access. Flock agreed to a $290,000 penalty for unauthorized data disclosures and disabled the national lookup feature for all California agencies. Vehicle theft had risen 33% while cameras were off.