Flock cameras on the way to Bowling Green to help law enforcement track down vehicles

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A new set of cameras are in the works for Bowling Green.

These new flock cameras will go up to try and help law enforcement read registration on vehicles a lot easier.

That way, if they find out a vehicle is stolen from another area, for example, they can track that vehicle down and recover it.

Lots of people may have questions about what it can and can NOT do. We spoke to Detective John Williams with the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office who cleared up some of the things these cameras can’t do.

“Identify who’s driving the vehicle… It’s not going to go off… people are not going to start getting speeding tickets in the mail, like in some bigger cities. It doesn’t matter how fast you’re going. There’s different cameras in that system that are faster than others…. and it’s all the thought process of where they’re placed to what camera speeds you need and stuff like that,” he says.

He also told us where these cameras are currently planned to go to help better protect our community.

“The static ones will… deputy director Tod Young and myself discussed this… go around our county schools as well as our parks department. That way, we can see technically who’s around those particular areas… not only for the safety of our kids and people that go to the parks, the schools itself,” Williams says.

There is no set timeline on when these cameras will go up just yet, but Williams is excited that Bowling Green is set to join cities like Lexington, Louisville, Elizabethtown & Owensboro that already have these systems in place.