{"id":154608,"date":"2026-04-01T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:39:08","slug":"denver-city-council-approves-contract-with-new-automatic-license-plate-camera-reading-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154608\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver City Council approves contract with new automatic license plate camera reading system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver City Council on Tuesday approved a one-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/denver-city-council-postpones-vote-axon-contract-replace-flock\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contract with Axon<\/a> to operate cameras that automatically read license plates. <\/p>\n<p>Seven council members voted to approve the contract, which is worth $150,000. Six council members voted against it.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cameras.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"traffic camera \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A Flock Safety license plate recognition camera locates at the corner of West Colfax Ave. and Mariposa St. in Denver on March 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Hyoung Chang\/The Denver Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/axon-denver-license-plate-readers-privacy-safeguards\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axon<\/a> will operate 50 cameras in the city. That&#8217;s less than half of what the company Flock has been operating around Denver.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver City Council on Tuesday approved a one-year contract with Axon to operate cameras that automatically read&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-154608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}