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Danville

The smallest deployment in the county and the least documented. A records request was denied on a commercial-purpose basis, and the follow-up referral to the police department is still open.

At a glance

3cameras mapped in town
23.9cameras per 100k residents
?annual cost
?contract term
?retention window
Jul 27date referred to the PD
Each question mark above is a document that has not been produced yet. Danville is the county seat, and it is the only town here where the basic terms are still unknown.

What is on the record and what is not

ContractRequested, not produced
Denied
Payment recordsRequested, not produced
Denied
Written use policyRequested, not produced
Denied
Sharing listNo portal published
Not published
Participation in the Flock networkListed on Plainfield's sharing lists
Confirmed
Public comment procedureForm at the door, 3 minutes
Confirmed

The denial

A request for Danville's Flock contract, payment records, and use policy was denied in July 2026. The stated basis was a provision of Indiana's Access to Public Records Act that lets an agency decline records it believes will be used for commercial purposes.

The requester had already stated in writing that the records were for personal, non-commercial civic use, and confirmed it again after the denial. The request was then forwarded from the clerk-treasurer's office to the police department on July 27, 2026, and remains open.

Indiana's Act does not set a hard deadline. The Public Access Counselor's office uses roughly 30 days from receipt as a working benchmark, weighed against how large the agency and the request are.

Why the commercial-purpose basis matters to you

The provision exists mainly to stop bulk resale of records like property and licensing data. It was read here to cover a resident asking about camera contracts, which is a broader reading than the exemption is usually given.

The practical takeaway for anyone filing anywhere: state your purpose inside the request itself. One sentence settles the question before it comes up. The request template on this site already includes it.

What is known anyway

Danville's own records are not available yet, but Plainfield publishes its sharing lists and Danville appears on them. That places the town's cameras inside Flock's sharing network rather than a closed local system, which means reads collected here are reachable by agencies outside Indiana.

Three cameras is a small deployment, and that cuts both ways. It is a modest thing to end, and a modest thing to write a policy for.

Where to raise it

Danville Town Council meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7 PM, Town Hall, 49 N. Wayne St.

Public comment is confirmed: fill out the request-to-speak form at the door before 7 PM. Three minutes per speaker.

Worth asking