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Detective outlines Boone County license-plate reader program, cites thousands of alerts in 30 days
Summary
Detective Charles Shoots told the county board that Boone County operates six permanent license-plate-reader (LPR) cameras and provided recent detection counts, defended retention and access policies, and described interagency sharing and audit safeguards.
Detective Charles Shoots, the administrator for Boone County's license-plate-reader (LPR) system, told the county board the program is limited to plate captures and does not use facial recognition. "I'm Charles Shoots. I'm a detective with Boone County Sheriff's Office," he said, and described the system's structure and purpose.
Shoots said the county currently operates six permanent LPRs at locations including Genoa Road, Logan Avenue, Belloy Road, Newberg Road, Epson Road and Woodstock Road and explained that the cameras are optimized to capture license plates rather than broad surveillance images. "In the last 30 days as of this morning, the LPR cameras in Boone County have detected 3,590 suspended registrations, a 199 stolen license plates, 13 revoked driver's licenses, and 11 stolen vehicles and 5 wanted," he said, cautioning that repeated passages by the same vehicle can inflate counts. He said images are retained for 30 days and that searches require a case number or documented reason.
On sharing and oversight, Shoots said the county shares search alerts with other in-state and some out-of-state agencies (but not federal agencies) and that the vendor (Flock) helps provide audit flags; the department also audits use internally. He described several investigations where LPR data contributed to identifying vehicles and building evidence, and invited board members to ask for follow-up details on alerts and interagency permissions.
