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Board permits placement of Flock Safety vehicle‑tracking camera on district property after presentation by police
Summary
Woodburn police briefed the board on the Flock Safety vehicle‑tracking system and the board approved a property license allowing a camera to be placed near French Prairie to aid vehicle‑based investigations and AMBER Alert response; presenters said the system records vehicle descriptors and stores data in the cloud for 30 days.
A police representative and a lieutenant introduced the Flock Safety vehicle‑tracking camera system and sought permission to install a camera on district property near French Prairie and the Highway 214 corridor. The lieutenant said the system records vehicle descriptions and license plates only, does not capture facial recognition and is designed to be queried only when there is a criminal element or active investigation. He said the system is already being rolled out in other cities and can improve solvability for vehicle thefts, drive‑by shootings and AMBER Alerts.
On system architecture and privacy, the lieutenant said recordings are stored in a cloud service and are deleted automatically after 30 days unless extracted for an investigation; the system also enables cross‑jurisdictional alerts when vehicles are entered into the network. A board member and a former investigator questioned the 30‑day retention window and called for review of cybersecurity and retention policies; the lieutenant acknowledged the point and noted state regulations and system defaults.
The board moved and voted to approve a property license agreement allowing the Flock Safety camera to be placed on district property. The motion authorizes staff to finalize the placement under the terms described and to confirm permitting and legal conditions communicated in the presentation.
Board members asked staff to verify specific cybersecurity, sharing and subpoena procedures as part of implementation and to confirm that routine privacy safeguards would be enforced.
