UW-Green Bay Police employs FLOCK Safety cameras on campus

Last week UW-Green Bay Police met with the Student Government Association to discuss the use of FLOCK Safety’s fixed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) at UW-Green Bay. The addition of our 5 cameras to the periphery of campus will complement the hundreds of cameras deployed throughout the state, including the dozens deployed by various law enforcement agencies throughout Brown County. The FLOCK cameras deployed regionally have proven highly effective in alerting law enforcement in near real-time to criminally involved vehicles and subsequently as an investigative tool. UW-Green Bay Police are optimistic about their utility on campus, noting that within 2 days of their installation they were used to identify a vehicle used to throw objects at several other vehicles along Nicolet Dr. During this evaluation period UW-Green Bay will join several other UW’s with operating systems including UW-Madison, UW-Oshkosh and UW-Whitewater. The installation of these cameras provides an additional layer of safety and security to our campus community and all who visit.

FLOCK Safety cameras document vehicles, not people. They are not able to a track a person’s movements nor identify the occupants of the vehicle. Real time alerts occur when the system identifies a vehicle which is listed in law enforcement-maintained databases. The data is controlled by FLOCK Safety, stored for no more than 60 days and then destroyed. At UW-Green Bay, access to the information within that 60 day period is highly controlled with only Police Officers having access and their use within the system being tracked by software.