Alexa Barton is the city administrator of Parkville, Missouri, a post she has held since March 2022. She previously worked for the governments of Belton, Grain Valley and Clay County, as well as the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Barton earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Park University.
Barton announced Parkville would turn off its Flock cameras pending answers about outside access to locally collected data, without concluding the system had been misused.
Networked automated license-plate cameras can assemble searchable records of vehicle movements. Candidates and officials disagree over whether to ban the systems, keep them with limits, or defend them as investigative tools. This tracker separates outright bans from narrower restrictions.
