Many organizations have suggested guidelines to ensure license plate readers like Flock Safety protect citizen privacy. Flock Safety’s SafeList is specifically designed to maintain resident privacy. The SafeList allows neighborhood residents to self-register their vehicle license plates in their neighborhood’s Flock Safety system.

How the SafeList Protects Privacy

In short, the SafeList allows images captured of your vehicle to be marked as “resident.” This way, if a crime happens in your neighborhood and your HOA or trusted neighbor needs to look through Flock images, they can filter out all known “residents” in their search. This keeps your vehicle out of the search.

Here’s how to register:

Registration is simple. All you need is a link from your authorized Flock system keeper. Your link will take you to a form:

On the form, simply enter your street address and license plate number of your vehicle. You can even register more than one vehicle on the same form.

Under the form, you’ll see a box you can check that says “Remove my vehicles from footage.”

When you register your vehicle on Flock’s Safe List, footage of your vehicle won’t be removed completely unless you check this box. This ensures that your vehicle will not turn up in a search.

If residents have concerns about being recorded as they enter or exit, the Safe List can provide peace of mind by excluding footage of registered vehicles.‍

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