Certified license plate cameras as a diversion program

The FY2024 report certifies one program, Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion - Pharmacy Fraud, recipient Cranford Police Department, primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, funded and launched 2/28/2024, at 9,450.00 expended. Its statement of impact begins By utilizing ALPR systems. Flock Safety purchase order 24-00540 was encumbered on 02/28/2024 and paid by check 65376 on 05/22/2024. It buys a Flock Safety Falcon ALPR at 9,000.00 and an implementation fee at 450.00, the certified figure to the cent. The FY2025 report certifies a program of the same name at 14,650.00. Flock purchase order 25-00687, paid by check 67571 on 03/26/2025, is Flock Safety 2025 at 14,000.00 and Flock Safety Pro Services at 650.00, again the certified figure to the cent. The Flock order form for that year lists four license plate reader cameras. It describes license plate recognition with real-time alerts, alerts on vehicles in the NCIC and NCMEC databases, and custom hot lists for a suspect's plate. The words opioid, overdose, treatment and diversion do not appear in it. The one performance indicator in the FY2024 report is Reduction in opioid-related incidents: 10. No record in the file shows anyone referred to treatment or diverted from arrest through the cameras. Law enforcement assisted diversion is a listed use. License plate cameras are not among the uses Exhibit E lists.