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Talent police describe limits on Flock license-plate cameras, stress audits and policy edits
Summary
Talent police told the council their Flock automatic license-plate readers were grant-funded, capture rear vehicle images only, retain raw plate data 30 days (search logs retained indefinitely), and that staff will add explicit prohibitions on using or releasing ALPR data for immigration enforcement; out-of-state access has been disabled.
Talent police briefed the City Council on the department’s use of Flock automatic license-plate reader (ALPR) cameras and described recent policy changes and access limits intended to address privacy and security concerns.
Chief Snook said the department acquired Flock cameras through a Criminal Justice Commission grant and has had the system in service for almost a year. He said the cameras are designed to detect rear license plates and vehicle images only, not faces, and that the department is adding language to its ALPR policy to reiterate that data will not be used or released for immigration-enforcement purposes beyond Oregon law.
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