El Paso CO SO

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Fri Aug 29 2025
Overview
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. El Paso County Sheriff's Office utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office may utilize real time alerting of hotlist vehicles to capture wanted criminals, recover stolen vehicles, and notify deputies primarily of other public safety alerts. In an effort to demonstrate that proper guardrails are in place to prevent misuse, 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 El Paso County Sheriff's Office and is never sold to third 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
All system access requires a valid reason. The reported reason is stored indefinitely. System search access shall only be conducted in relation to criminal investigations or a criminal nexus. A search is limited to authorized law enforcement personnel.
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 with 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 Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act to determine whether such records should be released.
Usage
Data retention (in days)
30 days
Number of LPR and other cameras
19
Hotlists Alerted On
NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert
Unique vehicles detected in the last 30 days
322,610
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
1,711
Searches in the last 30 days
249
External organizations with access
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Additional Info
Disclaimer
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office is in the process of transitioning all of its stationary ALPR cameras to Flock Safety. As such, the ALPR data reflected in the Transparency Portal is not reflective of all the data the agency collects.