Cleveland County NC SO

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Sat Dec 21 2024
Overview
Cleveland County SO uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. Cleveland County SO utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, Cleveland County SO 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 Cleveland County SO and is never sold to 3rd parties.
Prohibited Uses
Immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harrassment 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 (in days)
30 days
Number of owned cameras
15
Hotlists Alerted On
NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
138,506
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
193
Searches in the last 30 days
513
Public Search Audit