Tonawanda Town NY PD

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Thu May 01 2025
Overview
Tonawanda Town NY PD uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. Tonawanda Town NY PD utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, Tonawanda Town NY PD 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 Tonawanda Town NY 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
15
Hotlists Alerted On
NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
321,150
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
5,842
Searches in the last 30 days
183
Additional Info
Recent Success Story
Additional Info