From The Tribune staff reports
ATLANTA — Flock Safety’s public safety operating system announced it has joined the AMBER Alert Secondary Dissemination System, scaling Flock’s machine learning-powered network which has already helped law enforcement solve AMBER Alerts across the country.
The official distribution partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), means Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) network will now be enabled to alert law enforcement around the country to any AMBER Alerts in their area. Within a few minutes of an AMBER Alert activation, all law enforcement agencies on the Flock Safety network can receive the Alert through Flock’s Hotlist feature.
Flock Safety currently operates in 40 states and 1000+ cities, including Trussville, Clay, Center Point and Moody, and works with over 600 local law enforcement agencies. Prior to this alliance, Flock Safety has manually activated its system to help law enforcement solve seven AMBER Alerts in cities such as Atlanta, GA, Wichita, KS, and Memphis, TN, including a stranger abduction in which a one-year-old was successfully returned to her mother unharmed.
The AMBER Alert integration is being managed by Flock Safety’s co-founder and CTO Matt Feury, who also oversees the security of the Flock system.
“Privacy and security are at the core of everything we do at Flock Safety,” said Feury. “For example, our unique opt-in approach to data sharing allows private customers, like neighborhoods and business owners, to participate in the AMBER Alert program while restricting full access to all of their footage. Our end-to-end data encryption, automatic deletion of data, and strict security protocols ensure that our network can help protect the most vulnerable members of society — children — while protecting citizen privacy and safeguarding sensitive data.”
For more information on Flock Safety and its safety-as-a-service technology for private citizens, business owners, and law enforcement, visit www.flocksafety.com.
