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Goes to the Council’s shared inbox. Asks the city to fix the policy before any new ALPR contract — and to keep the Mayor’s commitment to a public vote.

To: council@bendoregon.gov
Subject: Please fix the policy before any new ALPR contract

Dear Bend City Council,

I'm asking the Council not to approve, fund, or amend any fixed license-plate-reader deployment until Bend (1) publishes an SB 1516-compliant Policy 428 for independent public review, (2) releases the full Axon terms — including who holds the encryption keys and who controls the data, (3) explains why the 70+ in-car readers already in service don't cover the stated need, and (4) holds a public vote after a real comment period.

Bend turned Flock off for a reason: resident movement data became a database others could search. Switching to Axon doesn't change that — the data still lives in a vendor-managed cloud where the vendor, not the city, holds the keys. Oregon law now requires the policy to come first. Please keep the Mayor's commitment to a public vote, and fix the policy before the contract.

[Your name]
[Your address, Bend, OR]

Goes to the Board’s shared inbox, copying the three commissioners. Asks for binding safeguards before any ALPR activation under the approved Axon contract.

To: board@deschutes.org
Cc: Phil.Chang@deschutes.org, Tony.DeBone@deschutes.org, Patti.Adair@deschutes.org
Subject: Binding safeguards before any ALPR activation under the Axon contract

Dear Deschutes County Commissioners,

Thank you for hearing the public on June 3. The approved contract may not license ALPR, but it buys ALPR-capable Fleet 3 hardware and moves the County's camera evidence into Axon's managed cloud — and activating plate-reading is a back-office cloud toggle, not a hardware change.

Before any future ALPR activation or any plate extraction from stored footage, I'm asking the Board to adopt as a binding condition: (1) a published, pre-adopted SB 1516 policy and a public vote before activation; (2) a written SB 1587 immigration-use attestation from Axon; (3) a written status report on audit A0134 — what's implemented, in progress, or declined — before any further camera-program expansion; (4) independent audit access and public reporting; and (5) a countywide surveillance-technology ordinance so these decisions are made in public, by policy, not one contract at a time.

You cannot walk back data once it's collected — please govern it first.

[Your name]
[Your address]