Who runs surveillance cameras in Canyon County?
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- Agency
- Nampa Police Department
- Vendor
- Motorola Solutions
- Devices
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- Agency
- Nampa Police Department
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| System | Agency | Vendor | Status | Devices |
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| A million-dollar video analytics system for the police department | Nampa Police Department | Motorola Solutions | Active | — |
| A real time crime center inside a traffic project | Nampa Police Department | — | Approved | — |
Also listed here because the record shows it
These systems are documented primarily as something else. They appear here because a cited record shows the deployment also does this.
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The same agreement covers multi-directional fish-eye cameras and pan-tilt-zoom cameras alongside the plate readers, on the same 39 intersections.
On the map
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- Verified by us
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- Community-reported
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What we do not know
Nampa Police
- Where the 60 cameras are, and which 30 intersections they cover.
- Whether the video analytics workstation with facial recognition was bought, whether the function is enabled, and under what policy.
- How long video is kept, who may search it, and whether searches are logged.
- What "vehicles of interest" means in practice, and whether the system reads plates.
- Whether the council was shown the BriefCam datasheet's face recognition capability when it voted.
Nampa Police
- Whether the real time crime center opened, when, and who staffs it.
- What software or platform it runs, and which camera and data feeds reach it.
- What document sits behind the "Amazon/ITD" line of $1,200,000 in the project funding.
- Whether the plate reader feeds from the 39 state-controlled intersections terminate here.
- Whether any policy governs what the center may watch, search or retain.
Cameras on 39 state-controlled intersections [Nampa Police]
- How many plate readers were installed, and at which of the 39 intersections.
- How long the city keeps plate reads, who may query them, and whether queries are logged.
- Whether the Nampa Police Department has a written plate reader policy.
- Whether the plate reader data is shared with any other agency, including the Canyon County Sheriff's Office, which runs its own readers on the same state structures.
- What the Idaho Transportation Department and State Communications do with their access to the feeds.
What camera networks are
Fixed and steerable cameras run by a public agency, often networked so footage from many locations can be watched or searched from one place.
What you can do
Civic action
Show up
This technology is bought and renewed by boards, councils and committees that meet in public. We have confirmed where each of them meets in Canyon County and how public comment works there.
How to show up in Canyon County →Personal protection
Protect yourself
Practical steps to shrink your personal data trail. Our guides publish at launch; until then, EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense is the best starting point.
Surveillance Self-Defense ↗