Who runs a private camera registry in Kootenai County?
- Active Camera registry
- Agency
- Post Falls Police Department
- Vendor
- Motorola Solutions
- Devices
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| System | Agency | Vendor | Status | Devices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camera registry | Post Falls Police Department | Motorola Solutions | Active | — |
What we do not know
Post Falls Police
- How many cameras have been registered, and where? No city record we read gives a number.
- What happens to a registered camera's location data, and how long is it kept? The proposal describes the feature and not its retention.
- Is the registry switched on? The proposal is a menu of CommandCentral Community features and the City bought 74 licenses; no later city document says which of them the department turned on.
- The EFF Atlas of Surveillance records a CityProtect camera registry at the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office, citing the vendor's own agency page. Is that a second registry, or the same platform reaching across agencies?
What private camera registries are
A list, kept by a police department, of privately owned security cameras and where they are. Officers use it to ask owners for footage. Some registries also let an agency request footage through the camera vendor’s app.
How they work, why agencies buy them, and every county we have documented →
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 Kootenai County and how public comment works there.
How to show up in Kootenai 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 ↗