Source: dominionpost.com 7/22/26
During a recent information session, representatives of the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department said the county’s 20 Flock Safety license plate reader cameras captured some 572,370 unique license plate images over a 30-day period.
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“If you’re a registered sex offender, you’re in NCIC. So every time a sex offender drives by these cameras, they go off,” Ralston said, explaining more hits are generated by sex offenders than anything else.
By way of example, he showed all the NCIC hits that officers were alerted to between July 1 and July 17.
During that time, 135 hits were sex offenders. Additionally, there were plates linked to 22 active warrants, six protection orders, six stolen plates, two stolen vehicles and one suspected gang/terrorist flagged by the system.
Ralston said that, by and large, hits from sex offenders don’t raise alarm bells unless there’s an active crime or warrant.
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