Johns Creek police would have access to data collected by Ring LLC home security systems and Flock Group Inc. license plate readers under agreements approved by the Johns Creek City Council.
Ring is an Amazon company whose products include the popular Ring video doorbell.
The agreement with Ring lets police use its Neighbors Portal to communicate with users of the Neighbors App, “which encourages community engagement to work with local law enforcement to make neighborhoods safer,” Police Chief Ed Densmore and Major John Clifton said in an agenda report to the council.
Police do not have access to videos unless a user “explicitly and voluntarily chooses to share their recordings,” they said.
Flock has 17 license plate recognition cameras in six Johns Creek neighborhoods, leased by their homeowners associations. The agreement, the officers said, allows police “to use the images stored on each neighborhood cloud to potentially solve crimes in these areas.”
Neither the Ring nor Flock agreement requires a financial commitment by the city.
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