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.
Case
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.
Role at the time: Parkville city administrator
Statement summary
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.
“As a result, we are turning off the cameras”
She supports a temporary shutdown until data-sharing and oversight concerns are answered, not a permanent prohibition.
Statement dates: September 11, 2026
Statement dates: September 11, 2026
Statement dates: September 11, 2026
