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Walla Walla County

Use suspended · 2 agencies documented

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Walla Walla Police Department

Status
Use suspended
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
15
15 leased Flock cameras at deployment in Sept. 2024, per the Union-Bulletin.
Contract
Flock Safety: $50,000 · from Sept. 2024 · About $50,000 lease, paid from the drug forfeiture fund. (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Sept. 12, 2024)
  1. Sept. 6, 2024 Installation of 15 Flock cameras was completed and the cameras went live. (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Sept. 12, 2024)
  2. Feb. 2026 The Tri-City Herald reported the department had backed out of using Flock. (Tri-City Herald / The Spokesman-Review, Feb. 4, 2026)
  3. April 2026 KNDO listed Walla Walla among agencies that suspended Flock use after the new state law. (KNDO/KNDU NonStop Local, April 7, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • No date or decision record for ending the program was found; the Feb. 2026 date is the report date. KNDO described it as a suspension, so the shutdown's permanence is not confirmed.
  • The Tri-City Herald said police backed out of using the cameras; KNDO called it a suspension. Marked suspended.

Secondhand report; not yet confirmed with the agency.

College Place Police Department

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
8
Eight Flock cameras, per Elkhorn Media Group (June 2026).
  1. Nov. 2025 College Place police switched off their Flock cameras while the Legislature worked on ALPR rules. (Elkhorn Media Group, June 12, 2026)
  2. June 15, 2026 Police planned to restart the cameras on or around June 15, 2026; the program is grant-funded by the Washington Auto Theft Prevention Authority through November. (Elkhorn Media Group, June 12, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • A June 12, 2026 report said the cameras were to restart on or around June 15; no source confirms the restart. The state auto-theft grant that pays for them expires in November 2026, and no decision on continuing had been made.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Statewide

  1. 2025 A University of Washington Center for Human Rights report on Flock networks in the state said as many as 80 public agencies in Washington reportedly use Flock, and examined how agencies share the data, including with federal agencies. (University of Washington Center for Human Rights, Oct. 21, 2025)
  2. Feb. 4, 2026 The state Senate passed Senate Bill 6002, sponsored by Sen. Yasmin Trudeau (D-Tacoma), 40-9. At that stage the bill required plate-reader data to be deleted within 21 days unless needed as evidence (a Senate committee had lengthened this from 72 hours), largely barred sharing, banned use for civil immigration enforcement and kept the data out of public records requests, apart from use in research. (Washington State Standard / KUOW, Feb. 5, 2026)
  3. March 2026 The state House passed SB 6002 84-10 in early March 2026. The House version added gross misdemeanors to the permitted investigative uses, and the bill returned to the Senate for concurrence. (Washington State Standard, March 6, 2026)
  4. March 30, 2026 Gov. Bob Ferguson signed SB 6002 on March 30, 2026, and it took effect at once. Police may now run plate searches only for felony or gross-misdemeanor cases, stolen cars, cars linked to people with arrest warrants, and missing or endangered people (with exceptions). Reads must be purged after 21 days unless kept as evidence, and they can be shared only for court cases. The law forbids using the readers for immigration enforcement or to monitor protected activity such as speech. It forbids collecting data near protected health care or immigration sites, schools, courts, food banks and houses of worship. Agencies must log who accessed the data and keep those logs for two years, and the data is closed to public records requests except for research. (Washington State Standard / KUOW, March 31, 2026)
  5. March 30, 2026 SB 6002 directs the Attorney General's Office to develop model plate-reader policies by July 1, 2027. Agencies must adopt them by December 2027. (Washington State Standard / KUOW, March 31, 2026; Washington State Standard, March 6, 2026)
  6. March 30, 2026 Flock Safety said it was already complying with parts of the law, such as purging data after 21 days. (Washington State Standard / KUOW, March 31, 2026)