Remarks by Jonathan Coffman
119 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 5
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“I was going to propose we move the 500 from 1849 Phase 3 up.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“would handle remediation, potentially additional for now.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Oh, sorry, I was talking about 1849, not the trail improvements. And I say that partially because our residents haven't seen the benefit of all of the amazing work that's been done in phase two yet. And I think it's just a fantastic way to let them start using that this year, over the course of this year. And we can put pencil to paper again next year on what to do next.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“If there's enough other people that are comfortable with it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“When the time is right, I do think Chief has something to say.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I think if you don't mind, I... Councilmember Mateo, like you said, it's not just a policy decision, right? So 24 hours ago, I had this great speech written. I was going to tear up all the loopholes and the risk that this contract was going to expose Louisville to and our residents.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“They did it for me. Not necessarily now. I was going to walk through why we can't trust them as a company before this even happened, including six of the agencies that we agreed to share our data with who have had public reported instances of abuse and we still had them. They were still in our system.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And then beyond that, and the mayor and Rudy mentioned this as well, the enormous public outcry of this. So I'll speak to some of the numbers because I went through this afternoon and I counted. So Council and the full mayor, we've gotten over 150 emails from folks in the community. These are all residents. The social media threads have had over 400,000 views, over 2,000 comments. And I can tell you, you can count on two hands how many people were supportive and wanted us to renew that contract. So I cannot think of any other issue that has united. Quite frankly, it's more messaging and…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'd like to build on what you said and Council Member Mateo as well in terms of Sunshine. I don't want to gloss over the fact that it was a resident through an open records request that identified this issue. The city gave the data to a resident who did the analysis and found it. So that, I think, to your point, is absolutely why we need actual governance and oversight, including resident information. oversight. Just have to. It's not optional anymore. And I will also say, as soon as I heard about the situation, I contacted the city manager, city attorney, and our chief of police, and they…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, it's a bug. They launched a marketing campaign about how trustworthy they were two days after we postponed the discussion on this literal agreement. nationwide media blitz, talking about how trustworthy they are. And then immediately afterwards, we get this.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“If you don't mind, I want to I want to. mentioned something that Dana touched on just for context. So the contract, the default contract that Flock is offering every single city and agency across the country includes a link to their website, to their privacy policy, that says things like their deletion policies, how long they keep things, some of the sharing. So things that are material to the contract, they can change at any time without notification. It literally says, we recommend our customers come read this periodically. That's no way to have a contract.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'm definitely not making a motion. Is that actually enough? I know that's our normal procedure.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Let me try it this way. Mayor, would you entertain a motion? Of course. Mayor, I move that we defund and disable, as well as notify our flock safety that we will not be renewing the contract?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“further refinement oh I'm so sorry I was gonna I was gonna make a proposal for us to discuss I would like to propose that we do go ahead and pass this resolution this evening however I recognize that councilmember Mateo has additional things that he'd like to see included I'd like to I'd like for us to work with staff in the city attorney over the next 30 days and either an amendment to this current resolution or an additional action to add those in but I also but I don't want to delay city staff being able to start implementing the guardrails and the rules and the oversight that we clearly…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I agree that a lot of your suggestions are material and very important. I would like for us to pass this version of the resolution this evening so that staff can start doing things like inventorying the high-risk systems. Let's make sure that we've got everything covered, right? We know there's at least one other of these products that are in use in the city. I think it's worthwhile for us not to wait to make further revisions when we can start that work now. I completely agree that we need to come back because the other thing that's not in here yet that we need is our resident advisory board.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'm pretty sure that city staff is not going to approve anything here for a second.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I was actually going to jump in on that because my expectation is that staff, they know what the goals are. We've had the strategic conversation. My expectation is that they will continue working on this.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“We've had this conversation before, and I'd be remiss if I didn't say it. High impact fees impact... are small businesses more than anybody else, right? The big, tract home... They can take it. They can take it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So, you know... Our totality of fees on a restaurant and a new build are over $100,000 in city fees.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026