AGENDA REPORT
DATE: July 8, 2024
TO: City Commission
FROM: Bill McDaniel, City Manager
SUBJECT: Resolution authorizing the City Manager to purchase Flock
Safety License Plate Readers.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Flock Safety License Plate Readers (LPR) are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems that are typically mounted near streets. LPR's automatically capture all license plate numbers, make and descriptors of vehicles that come into view, along with the location, date, and time.
The Flock Safety LPR system is effective in improving the efficiency of Police investigations that involve the use of a motor vehicle. LPR systems scan license plates continuously and automatically, using optical character recognition software to translate the scans into text and compare the result against one or more "hotlists" loaded into the system which includes stolen vehicles, kidnappings, robberies, missing persons and violent felonies.
In addition to LPRs, Flock Safety uses Vehicle Fingerprint TM technology that captures the vehicle make, color, type, state of the license plate, vehicles with missing plates, covered plates, paper plates, and over twenty (20) unique vehicle details like roof racks and bumper stickers. Thus, Flock Safety can assist in active investigations by locating and identifying suspect vehicles.
Flock Safety uses administrative, operational, technical, and physical safeguards to protect LPR information from unauthorized access, use, destruction, modification, or disclosure. Access to the LPR system is username and password protected. Monitoring and auditing usage of database will be in compliance with Police Department procedures and Florida Department of Law Enforcement recommendations.
The Police Department will identify strategic locations for the placement of the Flock Safety LPRs. The locations will house a standing pole with a LPR mounted at the top with a solar panel for power. Flock Safety will coordinate with the City of Plan...
Click here for full text