Flock Safety - Coconino AZ SO Transparency Portal

Overview

The Coconino County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety technology to keep our community safe while protecting individual privacy. This system captures objective evidence and allows deputies to perform retroactive searches of vehicle activity to help solve crimes after they have occurred. In addition, the Coconino County Sheriff's Office utilizes real-time alerts when a stolen or wanted vehicle is detected. To ensure the technology is used responsibly and transparently, the Coconino County Sheriff's office has made the following 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 the Coconino County Sheriff's Office 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), or personal use.

Access Policy

System search access shall only be conducted in relation to criminal investigations or a criminal nexus. A case number and reasons for the search are required to conduct a search and is limited to authorized law enforcement personnel.

System Access History

Flock data is only retained for 30 days However, an audit trail of the users who accessed the system is stored indefinitely.

Hotlist Policy

Hotlist hits (i.e., stolen vehicles, wanted vehicles, missing persons, etc.) that are entered into the CCIC/NCIC, NCMEC/Amber Alert systems will provide an alert notification. Based on policy all scanned license plates are required to be verified by law enforcement personnel and checked in the CCIC/NCIC information system(s) prior to action.

Non-Law Enforcement Access to ALPR Data

The use of the ALPR system to locate a plate can only be accessed by a law enforcement agency in conjunction to a criminal investigation or criminal nexus and cannot be used to respond to record requests by the public. However, if information from within the ALPR system was used as evidence in an investigation, those requests would be reviewed under the Arizona Criminal Justice Records Act (A.R.S. 41-1750) to determine whether such records should be released.

Usage

Data retention (in days)

30 days

Number of LPR and other cameras

Hotlists Alerted On

NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert