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License-plate readers · Crawford County

Crawford County

Using license-plate readers · 2 agencies documented

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Pittsburg Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
32
32 within city limits, of nearly 40 Flock readers in Crawford County, per The Morning Sun (Sept. 2026, date inferred from image paths). Original 2023 agreement covered 14.
Contract
Flock Safety: $42,000 year · from Aug. 22, 2023 · Two-year lease of 14 Falcon cameras. KOAM: $42,000 a year plus a $2,100 one-time installation fee. KRPS: $44,100 for the first year plus $42,000 to install. Sources disagree; the two figures may be transposed. (KOAM News Now, June 6, 2024; KRPS, Aug. 24, 2023; City of Pittsburg, March 20, 2024)
  1. Aug. 22, 2023 City commission unanimously approved funding for 14 Flock cameras. (KRPS, Aug. 24, 2023; City of Pittsburg, March 20, 2024)
  2. March 20, 2024 City release said each search requires a recorded justification and that the cameras do not use facial recognition. (City of Pittsburg, March 20, 2024)
  3. June 2024 A public Flock portal showed 114,608 vehicles in the prior 30 days, per KOAM. (KOAM News Now, June 6, 2024)
  4. Sept. 2026 The Morning Sun reported 32 Flock readers in the city; the same report says the city commission unanimously denied separate proposed downtown parking cameras. (The Morning Sun, Sept. 4, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • The Morning Sun story has no printed date; Sept. 2026 is inferred from its image paths.

From agency records.

Frontenac Police Department

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
Count not documented
No count found.
  1. June 2024 KOAM listed the department among nearby agencies already using Flock readers. (KOAM News Now, June 6, 2024)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Secondhand list, 2024.

Secondhand report; not yet confirmed with the agency.

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.