Flock Safety Cameras

The St. Johns Police Department has joined the movement and added a new layer of safety to our city, as some of the neighboring departments have done within the White Mountain region. This new level of safety is the Flock Safety Cameras. 

The Flock Cameras are a fixed, pole-mounted license plate reader camera system. This system captures the rear image of a car and the car's license plate number. Then the system searches the national wanted database for stolen vehicle information or national alerts. The national alerts include the AMBER alert for taken children, the GRAY alert for missing senior citizens, and the BLUE alert for threats to law enforcement.

If the Flock system identifies a vehicle listed in the national database, it will immediately alert your St. Johns Police Officers of the details. If the vehicle license plate is not in the database, then no notifications are made, and the information is deleted from the system after 30 days.

If an incident happens in St. Johns and the Police Department has a description of a vehicle that could have been involved, then the Flock system can be searched for a vehicle that would match the description. This search, however, would only show data going back 30 days, and would be with the understanding that only the vehicle's rear land license plate could be recovered.

Flock Transparency

The SJPD now provides additional information and transparency about the Flock System here. By clicking this Flock Transparency Information Site link, visitors will find details, including the number of license plate images captured every 30 days, the number of stolen vehicles identified, and how many times the officers reviewed the pictures in the system. MORE>>

SJPD ALPR Policy

The St. Johns Police Department's Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) Access Policy defines a minimum set of binding guidelines to govern the use of ALPR Data to enable the collection and use of such data in a manner consistent with respect for individual's privacy and civil liberties. 

About Flock Safety:

Flock Safety built the first public safety operating system that helps neighborhoods, businesses, and law enforcement in 1200+ cities work together to eliminate crime, protect privacy, and mitigate bias. Pair devices that capture objective evidence and machine learn.ing to create and deliver unbiased investigative leads to law enforcement. Our proprietary devices and cloud-based software reduce crime by +70%. MORE>>