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Butler County

Program documented, current use unconfirmed · 4 agencies documented

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Butler County Sheriff's Office

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
15
15 cameras on the agency's Flock portal, last updated Sept. 29, 2024.
  1. Sept. 29, 2024 Portal showed 15 cameras, 151,877 vehicles in 30 days, 197 searches, 30-day retention and 110 organizations listed for sharing, a count that includes the sheriff's office itself and one entry marked turned off. (Flock Safety / Butler County Sheriff's Office, Sept. 29, 2024)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Portal date is older than 12 months.

From agency records.

El Dorado Police Department

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
10
Ten planned per city newsletter, Nov. 2023; three installed and seven more expected by mid-Feb. 2024 per KWCH.
  1. Nov. 2023 City newsletter said police had bought a Flock system and were installing ten cameras, and that the Flock system can be accessed by law enforcement agencies across the country. (City of El Dorado, Nov. 1, 2023)
  2. Feb. 2024 Three cameras were installed, with seven more expected by mid-February, according to Chief Mike Holton. (KWCH, Feb. 2, 2024)
Conflicts and open questions
  • No evidence from the last 12 months was opened.

From agency records.

Andover Police Department

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
Count not documented
No count found.
  1. Aug. 2022 KWCH reported the department used Flock license plate cameras in a homicide investigation. (KWCH, Aug. 29, 2022)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Only evidence found is from 2022.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Rose Hill Police Department

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
Count not documented
KSN (2023) refers to 'a couple of cameras'; no firm count.
  1. April 2023 Chief Taylor Parlier described the department's new Flock cameras to KSN and said images are kept about one month. (KSN-TV, April 17, 2023; KWCH, May 12, 2023)
  2. Sept. 30, 2025 KSN named Rose Hill among smaller communities that had added Flock cameras. (KSN-TV, Sept. 30, 2025)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Most recent evidence is just over 12 months old.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Statewide

  1. March 25, 2021 SB 305 would have required written reader policies and exempted the data from the Open Records Act; the ACLU of Kansas testified against it. A 2024 legislative memo says it died in committee. (ACLU of Kansas, March 25, 2021; Kansas Legislative Research Department, Feb. 1, 2024)
  2. 2022 SB 434 proposed routing requests for reader records to the owning agency and adding them to records agencies need not disclose. (Kansas Legislative Research Department, 2022)
  3. Feb. 25, 2022 A Kansas Legislative Research memo said state law at that time had no provision aimed specifically at plate-reader data or policies. (Kansas Legislative Research Department, Feb. 25, 2022)
  4. Feb. 1, 2024 Legislative researchers reported K.S.A. 45-221(a)(55) lets public agencies withhold records containing captured plate data or concerning a reader's location. The 2021 text of 45-221 does not contain this language, so it was added after 2021. (Kansas Legislative Research Department, Feb. 1, 2024; Justia, 2021)
  5. July 2026 The Kansas Justice Institute sued Wichita in Sedgwick County District Court on behalf of a resident, alleging the city's Flock program violates the Kansas Constitution. These are allegations; no ruling has been reported. (Kansas Reflector, July 2026)
  6. Sept. 30, 2026 KCUR reported the Institute for Justice database lists five Kansas reader-abuse cases, and that Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a federal bill limiting sale and retention of reader data. (KCUR, Sept. 30, 2026)
  7. Oct. 1, 2026 The Johnson County Post reported that without comprehensive state or federal law, departments set their own reader rules. (Johnson County Post, Oct. 1, 2026)

State agencies

Kansas Highway Patrol

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Vendor not named in source
Cameras
Count not documented
No count found.
  1. Feb. 25, 2022 A legislative research memo, relaying a patrol officer's 2021 testimony, said readings go to secure servers at the Houston HIDTA office, are held six months and then purged, and that logging in requires vetting and a valid law-enforcement purpose. (Kansas Legislative Research Department, Feb. 25, 2022)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Evidence older than 12 months.

From agency records.