Washington · Police Department
Flock hosts a transparency portal for this agency at transparency.flocksafety.com/mill-creek-wa-pd. Everything below is what that page publishes, read against the 1438 other portals in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. A portal is a rolling 30-day window with no history: the figures are true of the day they were read and cannot be added up.
Not yet read at source by this project. These figures come from EyesOnFlock, an independent aggregator, as of 2026-09-04. Treat them as a second-hand reading: they are good enough to compare portals and to raise a question, and not good enough to quote as this department’s own words. The link above is the department’s page.
What the portal publishes
The template offers five headline figures. This agency leaves 2 blank: camera count, who it shares with. A blank is a choice, not a zero.
ALPR technology and data shall not be used for the sole purpose of immigration enforcement. Without another clearly articulated nexus to activity that is or would be criminal in Washington State, ALPR technology and data shall not be used to specifically target or track the movement of vehicles traveling to or from healthcare facilities, including but not limited to hospitals, clinics, mental health providers, and reproductive health care centers. This restriction applies irrespective of the vehicles origin, destination, or the medical services sought by the individuals. ALPR technology and data shall not be used for the sole purpose of monitoring individual or expressive activities protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. ALPR technology and data shall not be used for personal use, harassment, and any other usages that are inconsistent with the Mill Creek Police Departments policy.
Flock’s template offers five: immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, use based solely on a protected class, and personal use. Comparing portals is the only way to see which agency edited that list, because a single portal reads as though its list were the standard one.
Each line below is a difference between this portal and the template or the norm across three states. None of them is a finding about the department: they are the questions the page itself raises, and the department can answer any of them in a sentence.
This portal among the others
What a portal cannot tell you is what the department signed. For one agency in these three states this project holds the contracts, the statement of work, the drone agreement, the council minutes and three radio broadcasts, and reads them against the portal line by line: Las Cruces, New Mexico. The pattern that read found - a camera count defined to exclude the video cameras, a withheld search audit, a sharing list that stops at the state line while the contract does not - is what the comparisons on the map test against every other portal.