Casa Grande City Council — Regular Meeting

Monday, November 16, 2026, 7:00 PM

Council Chambers, 510 E. Florence Boulevard, Casa Grande, Arizona. The doors will be open no later than 15 minutes prior to the scheduled meeting time, at 6:45 PM.

Agenda / packet: https://casagrandeaz.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1906,plainText=false)

City website (supporting documents): https://www.casagrandeaz.gov

Item: Item C.1, "Consider the Minutes of the City Council Regular Meeting of November 2, 2026." The recommendation is "Approval of the Minutes of the City Council Regular Meeting of November 2, 2026." This is a standalone minutes item at the start of the agenda, not on the Consent Agenda. It is a vote to approve minutes, not a vote on the Flock contract.

• Item C.1 would approve the November 2 Regular Meeting minutes. Approving the minutes is not, on its face, a vote to keep or end the cameras. The posted November 16 agenda has no item to end Flock or to order an audit.

• The November 2 minutes (packet page 17) record comments during Item H, Public Comments. "Jacob Petrovsky, Casa Grande, again addressed the City's use of Flock license plate reader cameras." He said the cameras record residents' travel without suspicion of a crime, cited an October federal court ruling in Oklahoma that excluded evidence obtained from a warrantless travel-history search, "asked why the City does not require warrants for searches and what had become of the independent audit he said the Council had promised," and "urged the Council to vote on obtaining an independent audit."

• "Michael Henry, Casa Grande, also opposed the use of mass surveillance technology, citing concerns about its constitutionality and the effect on prosecutions if evidence is later invalidated."

Why it matters: Residents have used Public Comments, more than once, to ask the City to face the Flock cameras in public and to take a recorded vote, including on the independent audit Petrovsky said the Council had promised. If those comments stay only in the minutes, there is still no action item. EZAZ opposes pattern-of-life tracking and believes profiling should happen only by warrant. EZAZ asks for a ban rather than rules that keep mass tracking in place, and asks Council to vote to end Flock and to obtain the independent audit.

How to comment: Public Comments is Item H, later in the agenda than the minutes vote. The posted agenda says: "The Casa Grande City Council values citizen input. When called, please state your name and the city you reside in, speak clearly into the microphone, and limit your comments to three minutes or less." "In accordance with law, the City Council cannot respond to or discuss items not listed on the agenda but may direct them to staff upon conclusion of all public comments." The November 2 minutes say the Mayor "reviewed the public comment procedures and called speakers in turn." Sign up in person at the meeting before Public Comments (Item H); no written deadline is posted. A speaker-card, email-comment, or e-comment process is not stated on the posted agenda, the City Clerk page, the City Council page, the Agendas & Minutes page, or the November 16 calendar event.

The Ask: Attend and ask Council for the independent audit and for a recorded vote to end Flock. Sign up in person at the meeting before Public Comments (Item H); no written deadline is posted. You can speak during Item H, Public Comments. Item C.1 approves the minutes that record last meeting's comments; it is not itself a vote on the cameras.

ADA: The posted agenda says: "Disabled individuals with special accessibility needs may contact ADA Coordinator for the City of Casa Grande at 520-421-8600 or TDD 520-421-8623. If possible, such requests should be made 72 hours in advance." Agenda/source (packet, 2,034 pages, including the agenda and the November 2 minutes at packet pages 16-18): https://casagrandeaz.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1906,plainText=false) City website (supporting documents): https://www.casagrandeaz.gov