Custer County has ended its contract with Flock Safety and removed the remaining cameras that scanned vehicle license plates and recorded details such as a car’s make and color. A Flock contractor took down the final equipment over the weekend of Oct. 3 and 4, the Custer County Sheriff’s Office said. The county notified the company on March 24 that it wanted to cancel the contract. Sheriff Rich Smith has said the cameras helped solve crimes and protect the community in several instances. But residents raised concerns about how long data was kept and whether the system could create safety risks, prompting calls for the sheriff to remove the cameras. The debate intensified in August, when someone used a reciprocating saw to cut down two camera poles along Highway 69, north of Reed Road. The sheriff’s office described the incident as vandalism. Flock’s system collects license-plate and vehicle information and makes it available to customers, including law enforcement agencies. Such networks have drawn scrutiny from privacy advocates concerned about surveillance and potential misuse of collected data. The county said it does not plan to install license-plate reader cameras or photo-radar cameras previously discussed. Sheriff Smith said other companies sell similar license-plate reader systems, but he also cautioned that those vendors could raise privacy concerns. Custer County, southwest of Colorado Springs, is among several Colorado communities to recently end or change their use of Flock cameras. Boulder has said it will let its contract expire, and Moffat County removed its cameras. Denver, by contrast, opted to use a different automated license-plate reader system provided by Axon.