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Ellensburg police report year-one results for Flock license-plate camera network, stress in-state-only searches
Summary
Ellensburg Police said its one-year Flock ALPR deployment (13 cameras) produced about 1.7 million monthly reads and helped locate stolen vehicles and missing persons; the department emphasized it restricts searches to in-state queries and said it does not grant ICE access, while councilors probed limits for unplated vehicles and false positives.
Ellensburg's police department told the City Council on Nov. 17 that its first year operating a Flock automated license-plate reader (ALPR) network has aided investigations while raising questions about scope and safeguards.
“We started with the program with 13 cameras being utilized across the city,” Ellensburg Police Operations Captain Jim Weed said, describing a deployment strategy intended to capture inbound traffic. Weed told council the system records roughly 1.7 million vehicle passages per month and about 750,000 to 800,000 unique plate reads. Officers used the system for about 186 searches…
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