City of Franklin VA PD

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Sun Dec 07 2025
Overview
City of Franklin VA PD uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. City of Franklin VA PD utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, City of Franklin VA PD utilizes real time alerting of hotlist vehicles to capture wanted criminals. In an effort to ensure proper usage and guardrails are in place, they have made the below policies and usage statistics available to the public.
Policies
What's Detected
License Plates, Vehicles
What's Not Detected
Facial recognition, People, Gender, Race
Acceptable Use Policy
Data is used for law enforcement purposes only. Data is owned by City of Franklin VA PD and is never sold to 3rd parties.
Prohibited Uses
Immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, usage based solely on a protected class (i.e. race, sex, religion), Personal use.
Access Policy
The use of the ALPR system, software, associated databases, and data is restricted exclusively to the department's law enforcement and public safety-related functions. Information obtained from the ALPR, software, associated databases, and data shall not be used for personal reasons or reasons not consistent with these functions under any circumstances.
Hotlist Policy
Hotlist hits are required to be human verified prior to action.
Usage
Data retention (in days)
21 days
Number of LPR and other cameras
32
Hotlists Alerted On
NCMEC Amber Alert, NCIC - VSP
Unique vehicles detected in the last 30 days
61,697
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
356
Searches in the last 30 days
90