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Public-safety technology contracts the Santa Cruz City Council took up since 2022. All Santa Cruz meetings.

Extracted automatically — check the source. These rows were read out of the cities' own agendas, staff reports and minutes by a language model (claude-haiku-5-5/v3) on 2026-10-19. Each amount links to the passage it came from and each row to the city's original file, which is the official record. Rows marked check had a problem the checks caught.
4actions
3vendors
$227,224approved (recorded vote)
$58,353proposed, no vote in the index

Dollar totals add the amount each action states: an amendment's new total can repeat an earlier award, and annual amounts are counted once. Use them as a rough size, the rows for detail.

Actions

DateVendorItemActionAmountOutcomeSources
2026-04-28SkydioAnnual Military Equipment Report and resolution approving acquisition of two Skydio R10 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for SCPD
Drones
Award$58,353No vote recordedpacket · city original
2026-01-13Flock SafetyTerminate Flock Safety Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) Contract; Cease ALPR Use; Direct Conditional Return Only if a Fully Vetted, Values-Aligned ALPR Alt
License plate readers
Other—Approved
AYES: Councilmembers Trigueiro, Newsome, Golder, O’Hara; Vice Mayor…
agenda · minutes · packet · packet · city original
2024-02-13Axon EnterpriseMilitary Equipment Purchase Request and Policy Update per Assembly Bill 481 (PD) check
Drones
Award$227,224Approved
Motion carried
agenda · agenda · minutes · minutes · packet
2023-11-28Flock SafetyFiscal Year (FY) 2024 State Homeland Security Program Grant Proposal – Automated License Plate Readers (PD)
License plate readers
Other$84,000Continued
The motion carried unanimously
minutes · packet · packet · packet · city original