# Asheville Ends Flock Surveillance Contract

Asheville City Council voted 5–2 to terminate the city’s contract with Flock Safety for a police surveillance-camera service, and police access ended the following day. The decision also leaves data-governance questions for the city: residents can ask who searched the data and whether it has been deleted. No contract value, replacement procurement, or solicitation details were provided.

- For municipal procurement teams, the termination underscores the importance of defining data access, auditability, retention, and deletion terms in surveillance technology contracts.
- Flock Safety’s municipal business in Asheville is affected; the signals do not identify a replacement vendor or a planned follow-on procurement.
- Companies pursuing similar city contracts should be prepared to explain how their systems support search auditing and data deletion, issues now raised publicly in Asheville.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Public Safety, Information Technology
**Topics:** Digital Infrastructure
**Published:** October 22, 2026

### Government Entities
- City of Asheville
- Asheville City Council
- Asheville police

### Vendors
- Flock Safety (incumbent)

### Sources
- [Asheville City Council voted 5–2 to end its Flock contract. Police lost access the next day.

The contract ended. The data question didn't. Here's how residents can ask who searched it and whether it's deleted:
https://t.co/aHkK3N9U21](https://x.com/TerrierOfWar/status/2112929402707435678) - twitter-sled
- [Asheville candidates reject Flock camera contract](https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/crime/2026/10/22/asheville-candidates-reject-flock-camera-contract/92368836007) - The Asheville Citizen Times