Police adding FLOCK Safety cameras to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Police in Green Bay say they are adding five FLOCK Safety cameras around the campus at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
According to a release from the UW-Green Bay Police Department, officers met with the UWGB Student Government Association to talk about the use of five FLOCK Safety fixed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) on the UWGB campus.
Officials say the FLOCK cameras focus on vehicles and not people. The cameras are unable to track who is in a vehicle and their movements.
The cameras are instead used to provide real-time alerts when the system identifies vehicles with license plates listed in law enforcement-maintained databases as being in relation to cases involving stolen cars, stolen plates, and amber alerts.
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Police say they are optimistic about the cameras used on campus citing that they are highly efficient for use as an investigative tool that provides near real-time on criminally involved vehicles.
Officers report that, within two days of installing the cameras, police were able to identify a vehicle that was being used to throw objects at several other vehicles along Nicolet Drive.
The cameras installed around the UWGB campus are said to complement the hundreds of cameras deployed around the state including the dozens deployed by other local law enforcement agencies throughout Brown County.
UWGB also now joins several other UW campuses utilizing these operating systems including UW-Madison, UW-Oshkosh, and UW-Whitewater.
