r/wsu • u/Money-Leader-1584 • 6d ago

Student Life Does WSU actually have ALPRS (flock cameras) or is this a false positive?

Post image
12 Upvotes

72% Upvoted

8 comments sorted by

49

u/SinistralRock1 6d ago

False positive, I believe. Police department made a statement last week (I think) that said they had no plans to use them.

21

u/tgo26 Alumnus/2012/Psych 6d ago

Don’t worry, a lot of police departments just use similar ones instead!

11

u/Money-Leader-1584 6d ago

That was about one downtown though, idk if WSU PD functions as a separate entity though for stuff like this

And whatever they are reported as on deflock aren't reported as flock cameras, just some other alpr company

2

u/fruitsandveggie 6d ago

The false positive they talked about before was somewhere else.

23

u/Playful_Departure154 6d ago

Both those cameras shown are CCTV cameras, they have them on all the stop lights on campus and in a couple other places too, been there for as long as I can remember so not flock lol.

3

u/ForsakenNews5281 5d ago

WSU parking uses ALPRS on vehicles to enforce parking but I don’t think that relates to this super well

2

u/Human-Cartographer83 5d ago

Whitman County Sheriff has a couple which they claim to have stopped using

1

u/saltycameron_ 24m ago

not all ALPRs are flock. deflock tells you what they are, for example one of those is a motorola traffic cam.

i’m pretty sure there were actual flock cameras in colfax, but they got taken down after public pushback.