Skamania CO WA SO

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Thu Feb 20 2025
Overview
Skamania CO WA SO uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. Skamania CO WA SO utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, Skamania CO WA 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 if downloaded by Skamania CO WA SO 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
3
Hotlists Alerted On
NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
34,395
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
10
Searches in the last 30 days
16
Public Search Audit
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Additional Info
Recent Success Story
FLOCK SAFETY CAMERA POLICY
The Skamania County Sheriff's Office authorizes the use of FLOCK SAFETY cameras for law enforcement and community safety purposes. These devices gather and analyze the data to enable the rapid identification and location of vehicles and persons of legitimate interest to law enforcement. The FLOCK SAFETY camera used by the Skamania County Sheriff's Office to convert data associated with vehicle license plates for official law enforcement purposes, including identifying stolen or wanted vehicles, stolen license plates, Amber Alerts, Silver Alerts, and Missing/Endangered Persons. The purpose of this policy is to establish guidelines for the use, management, and operation of FLOCK SAFETY cameras by the Skamania County Sheriff's Office. The Skamania County Sheriff's Office is committed to utilizing FLOCK SAFETY cameras to enhance community safety, deter and solve crimes, maintain public trust, and support the overall mission of the Skamania County Sheriff's Office.