City of Las Vegas NV Department of Public Safety

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Thu Feb 20 2025
Overview
City of Las Vegas NV Department of Public Safety uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. City of Las Vegas NV Department of Public Safety utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, City of Las Vegas NV Department of Public Safety 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 Las Vegas NV Department of Public Safety and is never sold to 3rd parties.
Prohibited Uses
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 and is stored indefinitely.
Hotlist Policy
Hotlist hits are required to be human verified prior to action.
Usage
Data Retention
LPR data retention is 365 days. Video retention is 13 days.
Number of owned cameras
22
External organizations with access
Lake Mead NV NRA [Federal], Las Vegas Metro NV PD
Hotlists Alerted On
NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
189,133
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
84
Searches in the last 30 days
54
Additional Info
ALPR Policy