Kent Police have changed access to its Flock Safety camera system that captures license plate numbers of vehicles in town after an University of Washington research report that U.S. Border Patrol had searched databases of local law enforcement agencies, possibly to enforce immigration crackdowns.

The Auburn and Renton police departments made similar changes after the Oct. 21 release of a report by the UW Center for Human Rights entitled “Leaving the Door Wide Open: Flock Surveillance Systems Expose Washington Data to Immigration Enforcement.”

Auburn, Renton, Lakewood and Mukilteo police departments were referred to in the report as agencies that had Flock Safety camera information accessed by U.S. Border Patrol.

“Records obtained by UW researchers via public records requests reveal that

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