The Power of A Collaborative Community

What is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for Public Safety?

Biometrica’s approach to PPP is simple but powerful — communities are stronger together.

When hotels, schools, airports, retail centers, hospitals, and other organizations voluntarily participate in a PPP, they create a collaborative safety network — without compromising anyone’s privacy or First Amendment Rights.

This isn’t mass surveillance. No one is watching everyone. Instead, each facility operates its own system, receives alerts only when legally permissible and relevant threats or missing persons are detected, and supports a broader effort to protect the community as a whole.

How Biometrica’s PPP Model Works

  • No Shared Video or Sensor Data
    No organization, including Biometrica, can see another facility’s live sensor feeds, video, or alerts.
  • Each Partner Controls Their Own Data
    Each partner organization defines what is relevant, what alerts they receive, and who receives them.
  • UMbRA-Powered
    All alerts rely on the nation’s largest 100% law enforcement-sourced non-biometric risk database.
  • Facility-Specific Lists
    Each facility can also maintain its own internal banned or watchlists (e.g., trespassed individuals, noncustodial parents, etc.)

The Network Effect

Imagine:

  • A missing child or teenager from a school is seen near a hotel.
  • A fugitive evades one transit hub but passes through another.
  • A victim of human trafficking enters a healthcare facility seeking help.

With Biometrica’s PPP network:

  • Every participating sensor — at schools, hospitals, transit hubs, hotels, airports, or retail — quietly looks for relevant risks in a very targeted manner.
  • No mass surveillance occurs.
  • Only relevant, law enforcement-identified persons generate alerts.

Instead of one facility acting alone, the whole community becomes part of a respectful, privacy-first safety net.

This community-wide collaboration helps recover missing persons faster, prevent incidents, and make environments safer without infringing on anyone’s rights.

Privacy & Guardrails

Biometrica’s PPP model is governed by strict guardrails:

  • No mass surveillance
  • No biometric access, storage or transmission
  • Human-in-the-loop review of every alert
  • Relevance filters tailored to the environment
  • Immutable audit trail for accountability
  • No facility has access to another’s data unless lawfully authorized

Participation is designed to amplify safety — not to expand surveillance.

Human Oversight Stays Central

Each partner contributes to the network without ceding control:

  • Every participating entity defines what is relevant for them.
  • Alerts never act autonomously — a trained human always makes the final call.
  • Data stays within legal and ethical boundaries.

More Than Technology — A Trusted Network

Biometrica’s PPP model:

  • Enables proactive response to threats
  • Strengthens community resilience
  • Prevents isolated facilities from facing crises alone

The Power of Voluntary Collaboration

Biometrica does not share data between organizations.
Each participant:

  • Receives only relevant, lawful alerts based on their needs
  • Participates voluntarily
  • Retains full control of its own deployment

Why Local Governments Support PPPs

Local law enforcement and municipal agencies often recognize PPPs as:

  • Force multipliers for under-resourced public safety teams
  • Transparent, community-driven safety enhancements
  • Collaboration that also yields economic benefits, a safer community is a more productive one and a healthier one
  • Privacy-compliant solutions to increasing threats without creating blanket surveillance. This is not Big Brother.

Biometrica’s PPP model helps bridge the gap between public safety and civil liberties.

Examples of PPP Participants Could Be

  • School Districts
  • Universities and community colleges
  • Transit Authorities
  • Airport Authorities
  • Retail Associations
  • Hotel Groups
  • Stadiums and large community venues
  • Local Governments
  • NGOs
  • Religious institutions
  • Healthcare Systems
  • Organized Retail Crime Task Forces

This structure is adaptable to your community’s needs.

How Biometrica Protects Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Free Speech

Public safety and privacy are not competing goals. Biometrica helps communities, cities, and institutions protect both:

Our technology never records or watches people indiscriminately. We only identify persons relevant to a lawful purpose — fugitives, missing persons, or individuals legally trespassed from a property.

Our sensors don’t collect footage. They capture still images strictly for comparison, and unmatched images are automatically deleted.

We never access, store, or transmit faceprints or other biometric identifiers. All biometric comparisons happen securely, outside of Biometrica, by an independent, NIST-tested provider.

Our AI is designed to assist — not decide. Every alert is reviewed by a human to prevent errors or misuse.

Not every historical record triggers an alert. Our system only generates alerts when relevant to the safety mission of the user.

Our system is built to respect the First Amendment and other civil liberties. We do not track lawful protestors, monitor lawful assembly, or surveil individuals for protected activities.

Biometrica’s systems are designed to comply with the strongest data protection laws worldwide, while also helping cities and organizations protect vulnerable populations effectively.

For more information on our approach to privacy and civil liberties, please visit our Privacy Policy or contact us at privacy@biometrica.com.

You can strengthen your community without sacrificing privacy.