Why are Houston police the top searchers of the University of North Carolina's Flock network? – Click2Houston

Why are Houston police the top searchers of the University of North Carolina’s Flock network?  Click2Houston

Houston police are the number one searchers of a Flock camera network more than a thousand miles away, according to new data obtained by KPRC 2 News from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. HOUSTON – Houston police are the number one searchers of a Flock camera network more than a thousand miles away, according to new data obtained by KPRC 2 News from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The automated license plate readers have gained a lot of attention in recent months over questions and concerns about privacy. The data from March through May of this year shows the Houston Police Department ran 183,252 searches of the UNC Charlotte Flock network, which consists of 17 cameras.

“UNC Charlotte participates in Flock’s law enforcement network and shares limited search capability with participating law enforcement agencies that also share information with UNC Charlotte. For those agencies, a search can indicate whether a particular license plate was detected by a UNC Charlotte camera. The result provides the camera location, date and time. It does not provide the name of the person associated with the vehicle or its registration,” according to UNC’s website. For context, the data shows HPD is the law enforcement agency with the highest amount of searches of UNC’s network, and it’s about five times more than