WATERTOWN, S.D. (KFGO-KWAT) – A sheriff’s office in northeastern South Dakota is working with a national company called Flock Safety on a test-run of license plate readers.
The Fargo Police Department started using the license plate readers in 2024 and say it’s helped solve numerous crimes. West Fargo Police and the Cass County Sheriff’s Office also use Flock cameras.
Chief Deputy Brent Solum with the Codington County Sheriff’s Department in Watertown says Flock is installing four cameras in the county to do video surveillance.
“What that’s actually doing is it’s taking little snapshots of license plates as they come by,” Solum said. “One might ask, why is that important? What that helps us do is locate plates associated with Amber Alerts, stolen vehicles, missing persons, missing children, children in danger, human traffickers, drug traffickers, felony suspects, you name it,” Solum said.
“Anything that’s associated with that plate that has been entered into a national database, NCIC, that will actually give an alert and send it to any officers on duty.”
Once the free 60-day test period for the cameras is over, the Codington County Commission will decide whether to purchase the technology.
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