Washington · SD · population 834,648
Flock hosts a transparency portal for this agency at transparency.flocksafety.com/snohomish-county-wa-so-. 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
This agency publishes all five headline figures the template offers.
• All employees of the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office, including commissioned deputies and civilian personnel, shall abide by the policies and procedures related to ALPR cameras as set forth in the Standard Operating Procedure Manual. • Sheriff’s Office employees are prohibited from using Flock Safety Camera technology in the following circumstances: - - Employees may not use Flock Safety Cameras for non-work-related purposes or otherwise operate the Flock Safety Cameras outside their legitimate law enforcement duties. - - Flock Safety Cameras may be used to collect data that is within public view but will not be used for the sole purpose of monitoring or tracking individuals or expressive activities protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. - - Flock Safety Cameras shall not be used solely for the purpose of immigration enforcement. - - Flock Safety Cameras shall not be used to investigate or issue infractions. - - In no case shall the Sheriff’s Office Flock Safety Cameras be used for any purpose other than legitimate law enforcement or community safety purposes. - - Users will not target any person based on their actual or perceived age, color, creed, criminal history, disability, ethnic background, gender, gender expression or identity, lifestyle, marital status, national origin, partnership status, political affiliation or beliefs, pregnancy status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation as defined by RCW 49.60.040, social or economic status, veteran status, and, to the extent permitted by law, alienage or citizenship status, or any other legally protected status. - - Without another clearly articulated nexus to criminal activity associated with Washington State law, Flock Safety Cameras 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, or reproductive health care centers. This restriction applies irrespective of the vehicle’s origin, destination, or the medical services sought by the individual. • Flock Safety Camera use is prohibited on the premises or immediate surroundings of schools, places of worship, courts, or food banks. • Immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, personal use, usage based solely on a protected class (i.e. race, sex, religion).
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.