Few drivers may be aware that there are cameras in place in town that routinely use license plate recognition software to scan plates, providing information to police in a moment’s notice if a vehicle is suspected of being involved in a crime.
Hays County Sheriff’s deputies recently arrested a person who was later charged in connection to a murder after using the Flock Safety License Plate Recognition system.
According to police, a man who had died from a gunshot wound was found at a gas station on Sept. 7. Deputies said that they reviewed surveillance footage and images from one of the nearby Flock Safety LPR cameras to track the vehicle identification of a man who was wanted for questioning at that time in connection to the death of the man at the gas station. Later that day, a deputy spotted the vehicle and, after a brief pursuit, a man was arrested and charged with murder-first degree.
