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🔗 West Hollywood to Review Public Safety Camera Agreements with Flock Group Over Privacy Concerns West Hollywood
Pushback
🔗 Rohnert Park Slashes Flock Data Limit To 30 Days Over Privacy Concerns Rohnert Park
🔗 Mountain View: Feds Make 'Unauthorized' Use Of License Plate Reader Mountain View
Oversharing
Pushback
"Police called the incorrect setting a system failure by Flock Safety."
More coverage:
🔗 Santa Clara County may ditch camera vendor amid privacy issues Santa Clara County
Pushback
🔗 Rohnert Park leaders OK keeping data collected from Flock camera for 30 days Rohnert Park
Notes: They voted to reduce data retention from one year to 30 days.
🔗 Rohnert Park trims license-plate surveillance after residents push back Rohnert Park
Pushback
🔗 San Francisco Resident Drops Suit Over License Plate Readers San Francisco
Lawsuit
Paywall
🔗 Watsonville plans to keep using Flock cameras Watsonville
🔗 Capitola Revised Flock Contract Capitola
FOIA
🔗 Capitola, Watsonville intend to keep Flock cameras following Santa Cruz's exit Capitola
Santa Cruz
Watsonville
🔗 Flock camera system controversy Fresno
Santa Cruz
Oversharing
Video
🔗 Santa Cruz cuts Flock cameras over data sharing concerns with agencies like ICE Fresno
Immigration
🔗 Oakland installs controversial license plate readers to deter speeding Oakland
Notes: An article that unintentionally focuses on what happens when Flock cameras are installed by people who have no idea what they're doing.
🔗 Berkeley police hear concerns as department considers expanding Flock Safety cameras, adding drones Berkeley
Video
🔗 City Council Regular Meeting January 15, 2026 Los Altos Hills
Success
Terminated
Video
More coverage:
🔗 Santa Cruz the First in California to Terminate Its Contract With Flock Safety Santa Cruz
Success
Terminated
More coverage:
🔗 Shasta County installs license plate readers amid privacy concerns Shasta County
🔗 Public safety must-have or threat to civil liberties? Debate over Flock license plate reader cameras has taken hold in North Bay Analysis
🔗 Flock Safety cameras being installed across Shasta County Shasta County
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🔗 Santa Cruz City Council to consider ending Flock Safety contract at Tuesday meeting Santa Cruz
Pushback
🔗 Berkeley police to hold forum on drones, cameras, ALPRs Berkeley
🔗 Santa Cruz could end Flock camera contract next month Santa Cruz
Pushback
🔗 Year in Review: Controversy over Flock license plate readers continues Capitola
Santa Cruz
Watsonville
Expansion
Illegal
Oversharing
Renewal
Restricted Sharing
🔗 Retired teacher fights SFPD's 'Orwellian' camera surveillance San Francisco
Fourth Amendment
Lawsuit
Pushback
🔗 California Cities are Going All in on Controversial AI License Plate Readers Oakland
Santa Cruz
🔗 Who Has Access to Santa Barbara's Automated Traffic Cameras? Santa Barbara
🔗 Despite ICE concerns, Oakland revives possible $2 million deal for surveillance cameras Oakland
🔗 Oakland renews $2 million Flock license plate camera deal amid ICE data concerns Oakland
Backsliding
Renewal
More coverage (8 related entries):
🔗 Oakland's License Plate Camera Contract Is Back Up for a Vote. Critics Are Crying Foul Oakland
🔗 Council extends contract with Flock camera surveillance despite residents concerns about ICE East Palo Alto
🔗 San Diego leaders push police to seek alternatives to Flock for surveillance San Diego
Pushback
🔗 Anti-Flock group finds that state agencies accessed SCPD camera data thousands of times on feds' behalf since mid-2024 Santa Cruz
Oversharing
Paywall
🔗 Richmond Police Department Community Update: Flock ALPR System Richmond
Notes: Indicates that although the cameras are currently suspended, the department intends to reactivate them.
🔗 San Diego City Council passes FLOCK surveillance ordinance San Diego
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🔗 San Diego approves continued license plate reader use San Diego
🔗 San Diego City Council votes to continue use of license plate reader technology San Diego
🔗 An SDPD captain helped secure a multimillion-dollar surveillance deal. Now he works for the contractor. San Diego
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🔗 Richmond police halt license plate readers Richmond
Suspended
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🔗 Community groups call on city to stop using automated license plate reader cameras San Diego
Pushback
Video
🔗 Community groups call on San Diego to shut down flock license plate reader system San Diego
Pushback
"The coalition pointed to a January 2024 data breach that allowed thousands of unauthorized searches of San Diegans' travel information, many of them conducted by agencies outside the region. They argue the most troubling element was that the breach was not disclosed in the city's required annual surveillance report, something residents said eroded trust."
🔗 San Diego split on Flock cameras as council prepares surveillance vote San Diego
🔗 Fort Bragg Police Department says its Flock cameras keep people's privacy intact Fort Bragg
🔗 CHP warns Flock over sharing of surveillance data with federal government Oversharing
Pushback
🔗 Berkeley police limit surveillance data access to prevent use in federal immigration cases Berkeley
Restricted Sharing
🔗 San Diego County police agencies access many private license plate readers with minimal oversight San Diego
🔗 Oakland council committee rejects Flock surveillance camera expansion Oakland
Pushback
🔗 Oakland committee rejects additional Flock surveillance cameras Oakland
Pushback
🔗 Santa Cruz pauses participation in Flock's statewide sharing portal Santa Cruz
Restricted Sharing
🔗 Ex-Riverside County deputy charged with stalking, child porn and more Riverside County
Abuse
"Vanny had photographed the license plate of one of the woman's friends and searched it in the sheriff's department's Flock license plate reader system in an apparent attempt to track them."
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🔗 Oakland police hit with lawsuit for sharing license plate camera data with feds Oakland
Lawsuit
Oversharing
🔗 Oakland police illegally shared license plate data: lawsuit Oakland
Illegal
Lawsuit
Oversharing
🔗 Out-of-state law enforcement accessed Santa Cruz Police license plate camera data, Chief admits Santa Cruz
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Lawsuit Challenges San Jose's Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance San Jose
EFF
Lawsuit
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🔗 Capitola police chief confirms state law violations amid Flock license plate reader fallout Capitola
Illegal
Oversharing
Restricted Sharing
🔗 ICE accessed Capitola license plate data. Police say it was a mistake. Capitola
Illegal
Immigration
Oversharing
🔗 Oakland residents divided over Flock camera surveillance network Oakland
🔗 Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Responds to Outpost Investigation Into Its Automated License Plate Reader Program Humboldt County
Illegal
🔗 The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Appears to be Violating Its Own Policy and State Law on Automated License Plate Readers Humboldt County
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 El Cajon license plate data used in nationwide immigration searches El Cajon
Immigration
🔗 Attorney General Bonta Sues El Cajon for Illegally Sharing License Plate Data with Out-of-State Law Enforcement El Cajon
Illegal
Lawsuit
Oversharing
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🔗 Newsom just vetoed a bill to regulate license plate readers — even as fresh evidence of misuse emerges Legislation
🔗 Watsonville leaders say controversial plan to expand license plate readers won't undermine city's sanctuary status Watsonville
🔗 Watsonville approves more license plate cameras despite opposition Watsonville
Expansion
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🔗 SFPD let Georgia, Texas cops illegally search city surveillance data on behalf of ICE San Francisco
Immigration
Oversharing
🔗 Campaign across Santa Cruz County protests license plate cameras Capitola
Santa Cruz
Watsonville
Activism
🔗 Menlo Park police broke state law, shared license plate data out of state Menlo Park
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Pasadena Expands Flock Network to 73 Cameras as Residents Demand Transparency, Limits Pasadena
Expansion
🔗 Why were AI-equipped police cameras installed in this majority Latino Huntington Beach neighborhood? Huntington Beach
"'Surveillance equipment and surveillance, in general, are a lot of times a crutch for bad social policies,' he said. 'They don't solve the underlying issues of crime.'"
🔗 SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds Oakland
San Francisco
Illegal
Immigration
Oversharing
🔗 SF and Oakland police illegally shared license plate data with federal agencies: report Oakland
San Francisco
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Oakland wants to grow its police surveillance camera network Oakland
🔗 SDPD stops sharing data from controversial surveillance program San Diego
Restricted Sharing
Video
🔗 Police flout state law on license plate privacy Orange County
Illegal
Immigration
Oversharing
Paywall
🔗 San Diego police admit license plate reader data breach in early days of program San Diego
Oversharing
🔗 California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol Los Angeles
Orange County
Riverside County
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Illegal
Immigration
Oversharing
"Law enforcement agencies across Southern California violated state law more than 100 times last month by sharing information from automated license plate readers with federal agents, records show."
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🔗 Automated license plate readers spark slew of privacy concerns in San Diego San Diego
Pushback
🔗 San Diegans Push Back on Flock ALPR Surveillance San Diego
EFF
🔗 Federal agencies gained access to car owners' information from El Cerrito license plate readers El Cerrito
Immigration
Oversharing
🔗 Eureka City Council Unanimously Rejects Proposal to Install License Plate-Reading Cameras Eureka
Blocked
Success
🔗 California Attorney General warned police about license plate data law. Departments ignored him Illegal
Oversharing
Copies at:
🔗 Sheriff, police shared license plate reader data. Sacramento grand jury says they broke law Sacramento
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 San Francisco's New License Plate Readers Are Leading to Arrests — and Concerns About Privacy San Francisco
🔗 Governor Newsom Announces Contract to Install 480 New High-Tech Cameras in East Bay to Improve Public Safety
🔗 Flock Installed AI Cameras In This Small City And Claimed Crime Went Down. It Went Up. San Marino
False Claims
Notes: Article goes through several of Flock's exaggerated claims of crime reductions, including rebuttal from researchers.
🔗 Atherton officer involved in the arrest of M-A student also named in lawsuit over 'unreasonable seizure' and use of 'excessive force' Atherton
Lawsuit
Oops
Settlement
"The department settled with the plaintiff on the case in 2023 for $45,000."
🔗 01-31-2024 letter to California AG Rob Bonta re: enforcing SB34 on ALPRs EFF
Illegal
Oversharing
"Unfortunately, we have identified dozens of California LEAs that continue to share ALPR information with out-of-state agencies in violation of the law, including several that have expressly rejected the law as clarified by the Attorney General's Office."
🔗 La Mesa approves purchase of controversial license plate reader camera system La Mesa
🔗 La Mesa latest city to approve contentious license plate reader technology La Mesa
Video
🔗 Attorney General Bonta Advises California Law Enforcement on Legal Uses and Management of Automated License Plate Recognition Data Oversharing
🔗 California Automated License Plate Reader Data Guidance Oversharing
🔗 La Mesa police may soon purchase a controversial system to scan license plates La Mesa
🔗 Efficacy of Automated License Plate Reader Hits in Piedmont, California Piedmont
Analysis
Technology
Notes: Study finds that correlation between Flock system "hits" and both investigative leads and stolen vehicle recoveries is statistically weak.
🔗 Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show Sacramento
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Vallejo police shared data in violation of state law, watchdog alleges Vallejo
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Concord council approves 65 license plate-reading cameras for police department to oversee Concord
Expansion
🔗 Community Activists Reach Settlement With Marin County Sheriff for Unlawfully Sharing Drivers' Locations with Out-Of-State and Federal Agencies Marin County
Lawsuit
🔗 Police in San Diego County breaking the law sharing drivers' data San Diego County
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 California Activists Sue Marin County Sheriff for Illegally Sharing Drivers' License Plate Data With ICE, CBP and Other Out-of-State Agencies Marin County
Lawsuit
🔗 Data Driven 2: California Dragnet—New Data Set Shows Scale of Vehicle Surveillance in the Golden State Analysis
EFF
"In 2019 alone, just 82 agencies collected more than 1 billion license plate scans using ALPRs. Yet, 99.9% of this surveillance data was not actively related to an investigation when it was collected."
🔗 Sheriff pays East Bay privacy advocate nearly $50K in license plate reader case San Pablo
Lawsuit
Oops
Settlement
"Brian Hofer, chair of Oakland's Privacy Advisory Commission, received $49,500 in an August payout from the sheriff's department"
