Dallas committee grills DPD and Flock on data retention, access and audits for ALPR program
DPD and vendor Flock Safety briefed the Public Safety Committee on automated license-plate readers: city-owned data with 365-day retention, weekly audits, a reduced sharing network and planned mandatory audit-assistance tools from Flock; council members pressed for tighter MOUs, training and limits on user access.
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Sargent Reinhardt of the Dallas Police Department27s operational technology unit and a Flock Safety representative gave a detailed update on the city27s automated license-plate-reader (ALPR) deployment, its uses and planned vendor controls. Reinhardt said the ALPR program delivers real-time alerts for hot-list matches such as stolen vehicles, that the city owns its image data and that retention is currently set to 365 days. "Currently, we have 684 [cameras]. But with the state funding removed, that will go down to about 360 cameras," Reinhardt said; he also described weekly audits and immutable logs to track user searches.
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