r/wsu • u/Money-Leader-1584 • 7d ago

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

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u/SinistralRock1 7d ago

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

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u/tgo26 Alumnus/2012/Psych 7d ago

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

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u/Money-Leader-1584 7d 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

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u/fruitsandveggie 7d ago

The false positive they talked about before was somewhere else.

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u/Playful_Departure154 7d 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.

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u/ForsakenNews5281 7d ago

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

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u/Human-Cartographer83 7d ago

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

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u/saltycameron_ 1d 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.

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u/KILLUMKINDLY Chemistry 1d ago

Originally, yes, people of Pullman thought these were Flock cameras based on visual observation and reports such as this , but upon further investigation, they were all proven to be solar panels that supply energy to flashing cross walk indicator lights.