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Thornton police outline tightened ALPR audit rules after council questions
Summary
Police told Thornton City Council they will require structured reasons and case or call‑for‑service numbers for automatic license‑plate reader (ALPR) searches, add weekly audits by a five‑person team and log audit results, while IT completes a Flock security review; council members pressed for public engagement and legal safeguards.
The Thornton Police Department on Tuesday described changes to how it audits and oversees its automatic license‑plate reader (ALPR) system, saying the goal is to increase accountability after council and public scrutiny.
Police chief Jeff said the department will make a secondary reason field mandatory and convert it from free text to a dropdown so searches more consistently include case numbers or call‑for‑service identifiers. "By making these mandatory, ... we should start seeing significantly more case numbers and call for service numbers included with the searches," he said, adding the change will make omissions stand out "like a red flag, during the audit process."
The department also plans to expand its internal audit capacity from a single administrator to a five‑person audit team,…
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