Two Model Resolutions: One for the County, One for the Towns
The authority to act is different at the county and the town level — so the instrument should be different too. Below are two model resolutions, each grounded in North Carolina statute and drafted for the body that can actually use it. Free to download, adapt, and adopt.
These are two different tools for two different bodies. A county board of commissioners cannot direct an elected Sheriff — so its instrument works through the levers the county does control: its money, its contracts, and its land. A town council runs its own police department, so its instrument can end the program outright. We explain the full legal basis for both in a companion piece: Who Can Actually Stop the Cameras?
A county or town does not have to wait for the General Assembly. Each can act today, at a public meeting, on the record — using authority it already holds. We drafted the language so a board doesn’t have to start from scratch. Each instrument is grounded in North Carolina statute, written to regulate only the government’s own money, property, contracts, and personnel — not other agencies or private parties — which is what keeps it on solid legal ground. Bracketed items are for local completion, and every adopting body should have its own attorney review the draft before introduction.
Version 1 — For a County Board of Commissioners
What it is: a resolution that terminates the county’s Flock contract (#25-0364), removes all cameras within 30 days, ends data access and sharing, and bars any renewal or replacement without a Board vote. It does not direct the Sheriff — it cancels the county’s own contract, the same mechanism Davidson County and the City of Asheville used this week.
What the county version does
- Terminates Contract No. 25-0364. Directs the County Manager and County Attorney to give written notice of termination to Flock Safety and to invoke any termination-for-convenience or non-renewal right the contract allows.
- Removes every camera within 30 days. All Flock equipment — the plate readers and the Condor/PTZ video cameras — comes off county property and out of the rights-of-way within thirty days, with completion reported to the Board.
- Ends access, searching, and sharing. County staff stop using the system; participation in the statewide/nationwide lookup network is disabled; and collected data is retained and purged only per the records-retention schedule.
- Closes the vendor-swap loophole. No renewal, and no successor or substitute ALPR system from any vendor — by purchase, lease, trial, grant, or donation — without a prior Board vote at a public meeting. (This is the question Asheville left to its “comprehensive review.”)
- Directs staff and preserves the record. Full copy of Contract No. 25-0364 delivered to the Board; the Manager reports completion of each step.
- Does not touch the Sheriff’s operations. It states plainly that it exercises only the Board’s authority over the county’s contract, funds, and property, and does not direct the Sheriff’s law-enforcement operations or regulate any field the General Assembly controls.
Read the full county resolution →
Version 2 — For a Town Council
What it is: a resolution that ends a municipal license-plate-reader program. For Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, Wrightsville Beach, or any North Carolina town — where the police department answers to the council, no constitutional officer stands in the way, and the council can simply decide not to run the program.
What the municipal version does
- Discontinues the program. The Town Manager is directed to stop the police department’s operation of all plate readers within 30 days.
- Ends the contract. Non-renewal, and termination for convenience at the earliest date the agreement allows.
- Deals with the data. Terminates every external, regional, state, and federal sharing arrangement; revokes outside access; shortens retention to the legal minimum; deletes retained data (except lawful preservation holds); preserves the complete audit record for the council; and requires written vendor confirmation of deletion.
- Clears the streets and town property. No surveillance placement in the town’s rights-of-way (G.S. 160A-296) or on town property without a council vote — revoking prior encroachment permissions after 60 days. This is the authority a county does not have.
- Closes the donation route and requires future approval. No donated or no-cost deployment, and no future acquisition, without a council vote.
- Puts the state-required policy before the council. For as long as any reader operates, the written policy N.C.G.S. § 20-183.31 requires goes to the council for review.
Read the full municipal resolution →
The legal backup — for the skeptics and the attorneys
Every provision above rests on named North Carolina statutes and cases. Two companion documents lay out the authority and the sourcing in full:
- The legal analysis — county vs. municipal authority, statute by statute, with the limits stated as plainly as the powers. (Read it here.)
- The source & verification table — every factual assertion, its source, and whether that source is primary or secondary. (See the table.)
How to use these
- Residents: pick the one that fits your board — county or town — and hand it to them. A specific, drafted instrument is far harder to wave away than a general complaint. (Email your leaders and attach it.)
- Officials and staff: the bracketed items (jurisdiction name, deadlines) are yours to set; the framework is ready to introduce.
- Everyone: these are models for consideration, not legal advice. The adopting body should have its own attorney review before introduction, and confirm the vendor contract’s termination and notice terms first.
Read the legal authority behind both → Send one to your officials
These models are general information for public discussion, not legal advice, and create no attorney-client relationship. Adopting bodies should obtain independent legal review before introduction or adoption, and should confirm their form of government, charter provisions, existing contract terms, and (for towns) which streets within their limits are maintained by the Department of Transportation. Last updated August 23, 2026.
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