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Eugene police announced they decided on their own to release the map, which does not display precise locations for every camera. The ACLU of Oregon on Oct. 20 had filed a lawsuit asking a judge to order the disclosure of camera locations.
Eugene police released a photo map Friday, Nov. 7, showing the general locations of license-plate reader cameras across the city.
Police had previously cited concerns the pole-mounted cameras might be damaged in declining to share their locations. The map release follows an Oct. 20 lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Oregon that asked a judge to order the public disclosure of camera placements. The lawsuit remains pending.
A photo map released Friday does not give precise street intersections for every camera location, instead displaying circular icons that dot the map and, in some cases, overlap, as with multiple downtown camera placements. But evident from the map are several camera placements along Highway 99, for example.
The cameras remain inactive after the Eugene City Council voted unanimously Oct. 8 to pause their use, with the Flock Safety license-plate readers turned off about a week later. Citizens have raised concerns at public meetings that the technology could be used to target vulnerable groups.
“With the cameras no longer active the Eugene Police Department has determined that, on balance, withholding their locations is no longer necessary to prevent potential criminal mischief nor to avoid aiding suspects by evading detection,” police said in a statement Friday.
In their statement, Eugene police did not mention the lawsuit but cited “practices adopted by other law enforcement agencies” that have opted to publish maps of the camera locations. Since camera installation began earlier this year, six cameras have been replaced “due to damage caused by intentional criminal mischief,” Eugene police said.
Eugene police had previously said the placement of 57 Flock Safety cameras would be on main streets and roads leading into and out of the city, avoiding residential neighborhoods, with camera locations also selected to support businesses hit by organized retail theft.
The pole-mounted cameras capture images of license plates, allowing police to receive real-time alerts when a plate matches that of a stolen car, a suspect’s vehicle or the car of a missing person, for example. Eugene police have credited the cameras with identifying a vehicle used by suspects connected to an alleged burglary ring targeting Asian American households.
Springfield police published a map showing license-plate locations shortly after installing the equipment in September. As in Eugene, the Springfield cameras are inactive pending further community discussion.
The ACLU of Oregon filed the lawsuit seeking disclosure of camera locations on behalf of Eugene resident Seth May, a member of Eyes Off Eugene, a citizens’ group formed this year to oppose the technology.