{"id":452659,"date":"2026-10-01T01:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452659\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:04:07","slug":"el-paso-county-sheriffs-office-ends-flock-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452659\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office ends Flock contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced Wednesday that it will discontinue using its nearly two dozen license plate readers effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sheriff\u2019s Office sent Flock a notice of non-renewal for their contract and requested the company collect the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended Stories<br \/>\n        \u25b6\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheriff Joseph \u201cJoe\u201d Roybal made the decision because of \u201cconcerns about the future of the Flock Safety program\u201d and anticipated legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have the tools, training, and experience to locate and apprehend criminals without relying on Flock cameras,\u201d Roybal stated in a release. \u201cOur commitment to public safety remains stronger than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cameras were located across unincorporated El Paso County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Colorado Springs, 90 license plate readers developed by Axon were installed on light posts across the city in March to replace 55 Flock cameras. Fountain and other municipalities continue to use Flock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced Wednesday that it will discontinue using its nearly two dozen license&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[294,138,1536,140,139,19098,66,223,1225],"class_list":["post-452659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-crime","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-county-sheriffs-office","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-flock","tag-local","tag-news","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}