Program remained in place; Board directed a regular-agenda review near renewal
Supervisor Brian Oneto moved to cancel the Flock contract and Supervisor Logan Carnell seconded. The motion failed 2–3. A later motion to bring the item back for a regular-agenda review near renewal passed 5–0.
Consent-calendar acknowledgment
During the later Board discussion, Chairman Patrick Crew said the Board could “probably” agree the program should not have been placed on consent when it was originally approved in February 2025. The transcript records an audible agreement immediately afterward. This is preserved as meeting context; it is not presented as a legal finding.
Sheriff’s presentation and record comparison
The Sheriff discussed the program’s history, camera capabilities, retention, sharing, auditing, camera locations, case examples, and Fourth Amendment concerns. Several statements are consistent with released records; others require qualification or conflict with the signed contract, Policy 473, released alert reports, or the documented camera locations.
Transcript and original video
How the transcript was prepared
The transcript files were generated from YouTube automatic captions, then manually reviewed to add speaker names where reasonably clear and correct obvious caption, spelling, and transcription errors. Uncertain speakers were not guessed. They are working transcripts, not certified verbatim records.
Original public meeting recording. Open the video directly on YouTube.
Preparation correspondence
A July 22 email shows the Undersheriff asked Flock for materials, success stories, talking points, and other material for the Sheriff’s Board presentation. Flock responded with links to vendor materials and offered to tailor additional material to expected questions.
Public record ACSO–Flock Board preparation email
July 22–29, 2026 email chain produced with the August 10 focused response.
Open record pageFlock guidance for speaking to councils
For additional context on how Flock advises agencies to present public-safety technology to elected boards, the archive now preserves Flock’s vendor-authored guide How to Speak to City Councils About Public Safety Technology. The 14-page pamphlet discusses trust, governance, accountability, budget arguments, local control, and transparency. It is vendor material, not an Amador County record, and is presented here as context for the August 11 discussion.
The correspondence is archived as individual readable PDFs and redacted EML derivatives. Two Megan’s Law map screenshots attached to Brown’s email are omitted from the public derivatives because they depict the vicinity of private residences.
Follow-up messages sent after this meeting produced three supplied supervisor replies. Jeff Brown said he would keep an open mind toward the January discussion and offered additional public-safety arguments; Pat Crew said he intended to fully vet both sides before contract renewal; and Dan Epperson said the vocal public was mostly against the ideas behind the cameras and that he was looking into claims from both sides.
Post-meeting supervisor correspondence
Related February 2025 approval
The original Flock approval was on the February 25, 2025 consent calendar. The newly archived February transcript shows a public-comment period expressly limited to matters not on the agenda, followed by agenda approval and the immediate 5–0 consent vote. The separate Board-meeting review explains why that sequence raises a public-comment compliance question without treating it as a final legal conclusion.