Resolution 2023-256, adopted 08/08/2023, authorizes a Flock Safety automated license plate recognition contract not to exceed 90,900 and charges it to accounts C-04-23-006-000-206 and T-15-00-000-141-000. It gives the purpose as police investigations of automobile thefts, automobile burglaries, residential burglaries and other indictable crimes. It does not mention opioids. Flock quotes Q-31583 and Q-31657, both created 04/20/2023, cover six Falcon cameras on 60 month terms with contract totals of 75,750.00 and 15,150.00. The Township's Flock vendor history shows 90,900.00 paid on 10/25/2023, 88,195.00 from Ord 23-06 Police: Auto Lic Plate Reader and 2,705.00 from POLICE DONATIONS. Every Flock payment after that was charged to the National Opioids Settlement account. That is 9,450.00 on 05/22/2024, 14,650.00 on 03/26/2025 and 10,318.00 net of a 3,682.00 credit on 05/20/2026, 34,418.00 in all. The FY2026 report, published 10/01/2026, certifies the 2026 payment as Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion - Pharmacy Fraud, as the two earlier reports did for theirs. The budget detail for both accounts, printed 09/18/2026, shows the capital ordinance authorized at 88,195.00 and spent to 0.00 by the two Flock lines on 10/25/2023. The POLICE DONATIONS trust took in 303,075.00 from 05/16/2023 to 08/06/2024, 300,000.00 of it in four Hintz Family Fund donations. One receipt of 1,000.00 on 09/22/2023 is described as DIFABIO CONSTRUCTION-FLOCK CAMERA EXPANS. The trust balance was 130,258.10 when the settlement account paid Flock on 05/22/2024, 132,160.32 on 03/26/2025 and 86,818.63 on 05/20/2026. In those years the trust paid for other police technology, including a Cellebrite subscription renewal of 7,400.00 on 10/08/2025 and an Axon interview room camera system of 8,935.55 on 06/09/2026. The Police Department other expense audit trails for 2019 to 2026 show the police budget paid Reconyx for a camera and an ALPR unit in 2019 and 2020, 1,565.29 net, and paid Faraone Brothers 350.00 for Flock Camera Electrical Work on 09/20/2023. No Flock payment appears on those lines. That the settlement money paid for a police camera program the Township would otherwise have funded itself is this project's inference from these records.
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