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Madison County

Program documented, current use unconfirmed · 3 agencies documented

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Jackson Police Department

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety, Genetec
Cameras
16
16 Flock license plate readers in the two-year contract the City Council approved in Sept. 2024, per WLBT. No current count was found.
Contract
Flock Safety: term · from Sept. 2024 · Two-year Flock Group LLC contract for 16 license plate readers, covering installation and access to Flock's nationwide network. The Jackson City Council approved it unanimously; funds were set aside in the FY2024-25 budget. WLBT gives no dollar amount. (WLBT, Sept. 24, 2024)
  1. March 2013 Police Magazine reported that Jackson police had used Genetec AutoVu mobile plate-recognition cameras on several patrol vehicles since 2011, with two cameras per equipped car. (Police Magazine, March 13, 2013)
  2. Sept. 24, 2024 The Jackson City Council voted unanimously to approve a two-year contract with Flock Group LLC for 16 license plate readers. Assistant Chief Wendell Watts told the council the system would send alerts when stolen or carjacked vehicles enter the area. (WLBT, Sept. 24, 2024)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Vote date comes from 'On Tuesday' in the WLBT article published Sept. 24, 2024, which was a Tuesday.
  • The two-year term the council approved Sept. 24, 2024 would end around fall 2026. No source opened shows use since Nov. 2025 or a renewal, so current use is unconfirmed.
  • A procurement aggregator (Govly, Oct. 17, 2026) says Chief RaShall Brackney told a council committee JPD will not renew the Flock contract, citing privacy, and will look at other plate-reader options. That page cites only a post on X. Not used; listed under leads_not_published and unresolved.
  • The Genetec AutoVu item is from 2013 and is historical. Nothing opened shows whether that system is still in use.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Gluckstadt Police Department

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
12
12 Flock cameras planned once seven grant-funded cameras were added to five already in use, per Chief Barry Hale in the Madison County Journal (2023). No current count was found.
Contract
Flock Safety: $16,750 year · from June 2022 · Flock order form for 5 Falcon cameras: $16,750 in year one and $15,000 recurring, with 24-month initial and renewal terms and footage deleted after 30 days. The form shows the mayor's signature dated 6/6/2022. It is attached to the Dec. 20, 2023 special-meeting packet, where the renewal of the 5 cameras was up for consideration. (City of Gluckstadt, Dec. 20, 2023)
Contract
Flock Safety: · from Oct. 2023 · Board of Aldermen approved seven new Flock cameras at a Tuesday meeting, to be paid from a $150,000 Homeland Security grant the city had received. The article does not give the cost of the cameras. Month and year are inferred; see notes. (Madison County Journal (onlinemadison.com), Oct. 2023)
  1. Oct. 2023 The Gluckstadt board approved seven Flock cameras funded by a Homeland Security grant. Chief Barry Hale said the city would have 12 in total. (Madison County Journal (onlinemadison.com), Oct. 2023)
  2. Dec. 20, 2023 A special called meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen listed renewal of the Flock contract for five cameras and a request to bid out ALPR cameras under Homeland Security grant 23LE4505B. The attached bid request asked for 12 cameras and closed Jan. 23, 2024. (City of Gluckstadt, Dec. 20, 2023)
  3. Jan. 31, 2024 A leased Flock reader on Gluckstadt Road near Bozeman Road was found destroyed, reportedly struck by a vehicle, and was later replaced. Police said they could not identify a vehicle or suspect. (Madison County Journal (onlinemadison.com), Feb. 2024)
  4. June 2024 Chief Barry Hale told WLBT the tag readers help a department with only a few officers on each shift. (WLBT, June 26, 2024)
Conflicts and open questions
  • The Madison County Journal pages show no publication date. The approval of seven cameras is dated October 2023 because the same meeting set Tuesday, Oct. 31, as trick-or-treat night and approved an FY23 questionnaire. The camera-destroyed incident (Jan. 31) is dated 2024 because the article refers to the seven cameras approved 'in October'. Both years are inferences.
  • The packet agenda gives the chief's first name as 'Berry'; the bid document and news use 'Barry'.
  • The packet does not say whether the renewal was approved, or which vendor won the 12-camera bid.

From agency records.

Ridgeland Police Department

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
30
30 Flock cameras after the December 2022 expansion (8 in April 2020, 12 added in October 2021 and 10 approved Dec. 7), per the Madison County Journal. No current count was found.
Contract
Flock Safety: $16,000 year · from April 2020 · Eight Flock readers, starting with a free 60-day pilot. The fee after the pilot was $16,000 a year, and the agreement was approved in April 2020. (Madison County Journal (onlinemadison.com), May 2020; WLBT, April 24, 2020)
Contract
Flock Safety: $33,000 total · from Oct. 19, 2021 · Twelve added Flock cameras priced at $2,500 apiece with a $250 install charge each ($33,000). The 12 carry an ongoing annual fee of $30,000 (about $40,000 a year for all 20 cameras, per the Madison County Journal), with a 24-month initial term. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen approved it Oct. 19, 2021. (Northside Sun, Oct. 26, 2021; Madison County Journal (onlinemadison.com), Oct. 2021)
Contract
Flock Safety: $75,300 first year · from Dec. 7, 2022 · Ten added Flock cameras on a two-year contract. Chief Brian Myers said the cameras' total cost this year was $75,300; the article does not say whether this covers only the new 10 or whether it recurs. Approved by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen Dec. 7 (year inferred as 2022; see notes). (Madison County Journal (onlinemadison.com), Dec. 2022)
  1. April 2020 Ridgeland approved a 60-day trial of Flock license plate readers on solar-powered poles, with photos kept in the cloud for 30 days. (WLBT, April 24, 2020)
  2. May 2020 The Northside Sun reported that eight Flock readers were being placed in high-traffic areas at about $2,000 per camera per year. (Northside Sun, May 15, 2020)
  3. Oct. 19, 2021 The Mayor and Board of Aldermen approved 12 more Flock cameras, bringing the department's total to 20. (Northside Sun, Oct. 26, 2021; Madison County Journal (onlinemadison.com), Oct. 2021)
  4. Dec. 7, 2022 The Mayor and Board of Aldermen approved 10 more Flock cameras, for a total of 30. (Madison County Journal (onlinemadison.com), Dec. 2022)
Conflicts and open questions
  • The Madison County Journal pages show no publication date. The Dec. 7 approval is dated 2022 because the article calls the 12-camera expansion 'last October', and other sources date that expansion to Oct. 2021. That year is an inference.
  • No source opened shows use or a renewal within the last 12 months.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Statewide

  1. 2009 Mississippi's 2009 traffic-camera law, signed by Gov. Haley Barbour, bars counties and cities from installing cameras that automatically detect traffic violations; it passed the Senate 42-9 and the House 111-9. It does not expressly say whether cameras held by officers are covered. A 2025 bill, SB 2201, would have amended that law at Miss. Code Ann. § 17-25-19. (Magnolia Tribune (republished by Clarke County Tribune), Jan. 23, 2025)
  2. Feb. 22, 2017 WDAM reported that, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Mississippi was not among the 12 states with plate-reader-specific laws. NCSL's current state-statutes page lists Mississippi as "No statute identified." (WDAM 7, Feb. 22, 2017; National Conference of State Legislatures, date not shown)
  3. Oct. 18, 2023 The Mississippi Department of Homeland Security awarded Starkville police a $30,000 grant to buy three more license plate readers, adding to two already in use, WCBI reported. (WCBI, Oct. 18, 2023)
  4. May 21, 2024 In an opinion to Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, the Attorney General's office said state law does not expressly bar municipalities from using automatic license plate readers to verify motor vehicle insurance, that Department of Public Safety insurance-verification data may go to private entities if DPS authorizes it, and declined to opine on fee splits. The opinion does not address retention of reader data. (Mississippi Attorney General's Office, May 21, 2024)
  5. 2025 SB 2430 (Sen. Seymour, 2025) would bar counties and cities from using automated recording equipment that photographs rear plates to enforce motor vehicle liability insurance and require removal of such systems by Oct. 1, 2025; it has no retention or sharing provisions. Final status was not confirmed from an opened page. (Mississippi Legislature, Jan. 2025)
  6. 2025 HB 1709 (Rep. Holloway, 2025) proposed a $430,000 appropriation to the City of Carthage for its police department, including $325,000 for crime-prevention programs such as buying, installing and running license plate readers and live cameras. Whether it passed was not confirmed. (Mississippi Legislature, 2025)
  7. Jan. 2025 Two 2025 bills addressed officer-operated traffic cameras: SB 2201 (Sen. Joey Fillingane) would extend § 17-25-19 to manually operated recording equipment, and HB 1090 (Rep. Charles Blackwell) would require officers using such equipment to verify who was driving. The report followed Moss Point and Hattiesburg agreeing in fall 2024 to let officers use handheld radar cameras. (Magnolia Tribune (republished by Clarke County Tribune), Jan. 23, 2025)
  8. Jan. 10, 2025 HB 528 (Rep. Massengill) would have amended § 17-25-19 to bar camera or plate-recognition traffic enforcement by cities and counties, allowed police-owned mobile plate readers under conditions (a published written policy covering retention and sharing, annual audits, no stop on a reader hit alone, use limited to law-enforcement purposes), and required indefinite logs of who accessed data. It was referred to Judiciary B on Jan. 10, 2025, and died in committee Feb. 4, 2025. (Mississippi Legislature, Jan. 2025; Plural Policy (Open States legislative data), date not shown)
  9. 2026 A resident-started online petition seeks a statewide ban on license plate readers and Flock cameras in Mississippi and had more than 200 signatures, RHCJC News reported. (Mississippi Free Press (republishing RHCJC News, CC BY 4.0), Oct. 1, 2026)

State agencies

Mississippi Department of Public Safety, Office of Homeland Security

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Vendor not named in source
Cameras
19
19 fixed plate readers statewide, per WDAM's Feb. 22, 2017 report; no newer count found.
  1. Feb. 22, 2017 WDAM reported the office operated 19 fixed plate readers around the state and purged data after 180 days. It also reported that a Hattiesburg police reader trailer bought with a $40,000 state grant would send data to the office. (WDAM 7, Feb. 22, 2017)
  2. Oct. 2023 WCBI reported Starkville police had received a $30,000 state homeland security grant to buy plate readers and planned to add three to the two it already ran. (WCBI, Oct. 18, 2023)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Status unconfirmed: no source within the last 12 months shows the fixed readers still in use.
  • WDAM named Vigilant Solutions only in connection with Lamar County, not this office, so vendor is unspecified.
  • Grant-making to local agencies is recorded as context; local recipients are leads for regional researchers.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Mississippi Highway Patrol

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Vendor not named in source
Cameras
3
Three mobile plate readers, per WDAM's Feb. 22, 2017 report; no newer count found.
  1. Feb. 22, 2017 WDAM reported the Highway Patrol had three mobile plate readers and followed Department of Public Safety retention policy. (WDAM 7, Feb. 22, 2017)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Nothing found from the last 12 months on MHP reader use, contracts or I-55/I-20 cameras.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.