UT - Cedar City PD uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. UT - Cedar City PD utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, UT - Cedar City 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 UT - Cedar City 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.
System Access History
Flock data is only retained for 30 days. However, an audit trail of the users who accessed the system is stored indefinitely.
Hotlist Policy
Hotlist hits (i.e., stolen vehicles, missing persons, etc.) are required to be human verified prior to action.
