Steve Kellogg said the partnership was a natural move for a city that already uses cameras to read license plates. “You cannot enter or leave our city without … being captured on film,” he said, adding that doorbell cameras are the next logical step. “We thought, ‘Well, the only angle we don’t really have is cameras right by the homes. '”He said sharing video is voluntary. Green Bay, Wisconsin, gets one free camera for every 20 people who sign up for the Ring app through a city link. Initially, police required recipients of those free cameras to agree to provide any video police requested. It dropped the requirement after The Associated Press began reporting this story. If any partnership required data sharing, “we would never do it,” Heitman said. Back in Wolcott, Ernie Field won a free Ring camera and said he had to register for the app to qualify for the raffle. Now he gets alerts on his phone when a car drives by and a short video when his daughter gets home from school. “I don’t know if there’s more crime now, or we just know about it more because of social media,” he said.