AGENDA REPORT
DATE: November 10, 2025
TO: City Commission
FROM: Bill McDaniel, City Manager
SUBJECT: Flock Safety, Continued Implementation
of License Plate Readers
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The Police Department is committed to enhancing its ability to solve crimes. Since implementing the Flock Safety License Plate Readers (LPR), numerous investigations have been successfully solved, and violators have been arrested. The continued use of Flock LPRs provides investigators with a valuable tool for their work.
Flock LPRs are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems mounted near roadways. These systems automatically capture all license plate numbers, vehicle make and model, and the location, date, and time of each observation.
The Flock Safety LPR system significantly improves the efficiency of police investigations involving motor vehicles. LPR systems continuously and automatically scan license plates, using optical character recognition software to convert the scans into text. They then compare this information against various "hotlists" stored in the system, which include data on stolen vehicles, kidnappings, robberies, missing persons, and violent felonies.
In addition to LPRs, Flock Safety employs Vehicle Fingerprint(tm) technology, which captures additional vehicle details, including make, color, type, license plate state, cars with missing or covered plates, paper plates, and over twenty (20) unique characteristics such as roof racks and bumper stickers. Flock Safety has established a range of administrative, operational, technical, and physical safeguards to protect LPR information from unauthorized access, use, destruction, modification, or disclosure.
The Police Department has identified twenty-two (22) additional strategic locations for placing Flock Safety LPRs. Of the twenty-two (22) locations, eight (8) LPRs will be in the Community Redevelopment Area (CRA). These new sites will expand the investigative radius aroun...
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