# 2024-12 Flock LPR Cameras Cut from 2025 Budget The Conway City Council, during its FY2025 city-budget deliberations, **cut the Flock LPR camera line item** from the 2025 budget. The decision was communicated to Chief Chris Harris on or before 2024-12-13; the cameras had been proposed as a city-budget appropriation, and the Council declined to fund them. ## Sources - [[Morning - Procurement Pivot Thread]] — Chief Harris's 2024-12-13 11:10 AM email to Brittney Hall: "The cameras were unexpectedly cut from the 2025 budget." ## Significance - The Council had visibility on the spend and made a deliberate decision to not appropriate. This contradicts any framing of the Flock procurement as "the Council didn't know" or "the deployment happened outside legislative awareness." The Council saw, the Council reviewed, the Council declined. - The decision did not stop the procurement. Chief Harris pivoted to asset-forfeiture funding within 24 hours; the contract was executed in December 2024 / early January 2025 under that alternative funding path. See [[2024-12 Harris Pivots to Asset Forfeiture]]. - This is the single most important factual anchor for any deliverable that argues the Flock procurement worked around the Council's appropriation authority. Without this email, the budget-cut claim would be inferential; with it, it is verbatim. ## Open - The Council's stated rationale for cutting the line item is not surfaced in the corpus. Tier-2 follow-up: pull the Conway City Council 2024 budget-deliberation minutes / work-session records.