Shakopee Police Department

What the audit said

Zero findings recorded. The auditor walked each statutory requirement under Minn. Stat. 13.824 and closed every section with "No discrepancies noted." Shakopee ran three ALPR systems during the period: Elsag Plate Hunter (discontinued January 8, 2025), Flock cameras in six permanent locations on a 30-day retention, and Axon squad-mounted ALPRs on 60 days. No recommendations, no exceptions, and no ghost-finding language in the narrative.

What the audit said

All seven statutory requirements under Minn. Stat. 13.824 marked 'No discrepancies noted.' Report states the department 'is in compliance with statutes governing access to ALPR data.' Additional observations (not findings): a BCA CJIS Security Audit was conducted in April 2022, and the department reported no security breaches during the period.

What the audit said

All seven statutory requirements under Minn. Stat. 13.824 (data collection/classification/use restrictions, destruction, sharing, log of use, biennial audit, access authorization, BCA notification) marked 'No discrepancies noted.' Report states the department 'is in compliance with statutes governing access to ALPR data.' No exceptions or recommendations recorded.

What the audit said

No discrepancies recorded, with genuinely substantive testing: LEADS examined 610 of 131,791 reads from the prior 60 days, ran electronic searches of the live ELSAG database confirming no data older than 60 days, and examined the audit trail directly. Observations noted without findings: 18 reads missing GPS location data, one photo captured a person near a plate (not discernible), 24 false reads from street signs/mailboxes/bumper stickers, and duplicate hits including one impounded vehicle that alarmed 58 times.

Note on this record

Covers Shakopee's earlier ELSAG Plate Hunter system on three squads. Fieldwork was July 20, 2017; the report was filed in the Legislative Reference Library's 2020 folder.