Flock Safety - SeaTac WA PD Transparency Portal

Overview

SeaTac Police Department uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. SeaTac Police Department utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, SeaTac Police Department 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 SeaTac PD 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), 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

External organizations with access

Airway Heights WA PD, Arlington PD (WA), Auburn WA PD, Bellingham WA PD, Black Diamond WA PD, Chehalis WA PD, Covington WA PD, Des Moines WA PD, Federal Way WA PD, Kent WA PD, Lakewood WA PD, Lynnwood WA PD, Montesano WA PD, Moses Lake WA PD, Newcastle WA PD, Orting WA PD, Reardan WA PD, Renton WA PD, Selah WA PD, Sunnyside WA PD, Union Gap WA PD, Walla Walla WA PD, Yakima WA PD, Yelm WA PD

Hotlists Alerted On

NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert

Vehicles detected in the last 30 days

Hotlist hits in the last 30 days

Data Unavailable

Searches in the last 30 days