DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced on Wednesday that the city will extend a contract with license plate reader company Flock Safety, but it shut off all outside data access and will enforce penalties for sharing data with the federal government.

The contract extension will last five months at no cost "to evaluate unprecedented and strict new measures that ensure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that license plate readers (LPRs) are used transparently and within local and state law."

The new measures include shutting off all access to city data to outside agencies without a memorandum of understanding with the city and a $100,000 fine for Flock Safety when data is shared with the federal government.

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