Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Post Falls is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Post Falls, Idaho recorded for Post Falls Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 1 individual ALPR camera location mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary.
Agency
Post Falls Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Kootenai County
State
Idaho (ID)
Vendor
PIPS
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department, Coeur d'Alene Police Department and the Post Falls Police Department collaborated on an automated license plate reader program in 2005.
Sources · record AOS004624
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
1 mapped camera point inside the Post Falls boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other Idaho communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
Records show immigration-related searches ran against the Twin Falls Flock network, and that the sharing agreements were changed about a month afterward. The sequence matters: the policy fix came after the searches, not before them.
Idaho Capital SunAug 11, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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