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🔗 LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell Denies Nithya Raman's ICE Claims Los Angeles
Immigration
🔗 Millions of Flock scans in one local city La Mesa
🔗 Marin County ALPR Data Accessed by Federal, Out-of-State Agencies, Defying Deal Marin County
ACLU
EFF
Illegal
🔗 We Demand More Information on How Marin Cops Illegally Shared Flock ALPR Data Marin County
EFF
Illegal
🔗 Elk Grove residents' Flock camera data shared with thousands of groups, audit finds Elk Grove
🔗 Pleasanton PD admits feds previously had access to license plate reader data Pleasanton
Illegal
Immigration
🔗 Feds Secretly Ran 300 Illegal Searches Through San Francisco's License Plate Cameras San Francisco
Illegal
Restricted Sharing
🔗 SF: Flock Denies That Feds Directly Accessed Camera System San Francisco
Illegal
Restricted Sharing
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🔗 Feds 'improperly' accessed S.F. license-plate surveillance data, audit finds San Francisco
Illegal
🔗 Records show UC sharing data with US Customs and Border Protection Berkeley
🔗 Opinion: Bill Wells sued California to make it easier to hurt his own neighbors El Cajon
Elections
🔗 Palo Alto learns its license plate cameras could be searched by other police agencies across the country Palo Alto
🔗 West Hollywood Flock Safety Cameras: 14 Agencies Got In. City Had No Idea. West Hollywood
🔗 Modesto police find federal agencies had prohibited access to license plate data Modesto
Illegal
🔗 Federal Agencies Accessed El Cerrito's License Plate Reader Data El Cerrito
Illegal
🔗 License plate readers mined images for immigration data Oxnard
Ventura County
Illegal
"Although the department set its security protocols to "California only" upon implementation in December 2023, an audit last year revealed that a "nationwide query" enabled by the vendor allowed unauthorized access."
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🔗 Judge schedules hearing in AG Bonta lawsuit over El Cajon license plate data sharing El Cajon
Illegal
Lawsuit
🔗 Flock Safety Automated License Plate Readers and Data Security Ventura County
🔗 Out-of-state police access Silicon Valley license plate readers Los Altos
San Jose
Santa Clara County
Illegal
Paywall
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"Los Altos officials said Flock had enabled a national and statewide "lookup" feature on their network of cameras without notifying the city or seeking its permission."
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🔗 Flock license reader flaw opened county's data to non-state agencies Ventura County
Illegal
🔗 Federal agencies gain access to Flock cameras in El Cerrito, police say El Cerrito
Illegal
🔗 Oxnard police suspend Flock license-plate readers; Ventura agencies tighten controls after out-of-state access Oxnard
Ventura
Suspended
🔗 Woodside wants to know about federal agencies tapping into its surveillance cameras Woodside
Immigration
Pushback
🔗 Los Altos Police Department doesn't plan to stray from Flock Los Altos
🔗 Ark investigation uncovers federal searches of Tiburon license-plate data Tiburon
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🔗 Mountain View police say feds make 'unauthorized' use of license plate reader Mountain View
Immigration
🔗 Mountain View: Feds Make 'Unauthorized' Use Of License Plate Reader Mountain View
Pushback
"Police called the incorrect setting a system failure by Flock Safety."
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🔗 Flock camera system controversy Fresno
Santa Cruz
Video
🔗 Year in Review: Controversy over Flock license plate readers continues Capitola
Santa Cruz
Watsonville
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Renewal
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🔗 Anti-Flock group finds that state agencies accessed SCPD camera data thousands of times on feds' behalf since mid-2024 Santa Cruz
Paywall
🔗 CHP warns Flock over sharing of surveillance data with federal government Pushback
🔗 Oakland police hit with lawsuit for sharing license plate camera data with feds Oakland
Lawsuit
🔗 Oakland police illegally shared license plate data: lawsuit Oakland
Illegal
Lawsuit
🔗 Out-of-state law enforcement accessed Santa Cruz Police license plate camera data, Chief admits Santa Cruz
Illegal
🔗 Capitola police chief confirms state law violations amid Flock license plate reader fallout Capitola
Illegal
Restricted Sharing
🔗 ICE accessed Capitola license plate data. Police say it was a mistake. Capitola
Illegal
Immigration
🔗 The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Appears to be Violating Its Own Policy and State Law on Automated License Plate Readers Humboldt County
Illegal
🔗 Attorney General Bonta Sues El Cajon for Illegally Sharing License Plate Data with Out-of-State Law Enforcement El Cajon
Illegal
Lawsuit
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🔗 SFPD let Georgia, Texas cops illegally search city surveillance data on behalf of ICE San Francisco
Immigration
🔗 Menlo Park police broke state law, shared license plate data out of state Menlo Park
Illegal
🔗 SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds Oakland
San Francisco
Illegal
Immigration
🔗 SF and Oakland police illegally shared license plate data with federal agencies: report Oakland
San Francisco
Illegal
🔗 Police flout state law on license plate privacy Orange County
Illegal
Immigration
Paywall
🔗 San Diego police admit license plate reader data breach in early days of program San Diego
🔗 California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol Los Angeles
Orange County
Riverside County
San Diego County
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Immigration
"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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🔗 Federal agencies gained access to car owners' information from El Cerrito license plate readers El Cerrito
Immigration
🔗 California Attorney General warned police about license plate data law. Departments ignored him Illegal
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🔗 Sheriff, police shared license plate reader data. Sacramento grand jury says they broke law Sacramento
Illegal
🔗 01-31-2024 letter to California AG Rob Bonta re: enforcing SB34 on ALPRs EFF
Illegal
"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."
🔗 Attorney General Bonta Advises California Law Enforcement on Legal Uses and Management of Automated License Plate Recognition Data
🔗 California Automated License Plate Reader Data Guidance
🔗 Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show Sacramento
Illegal
🔗 Vallejo police shared data in violation of state law, watchdog alleges Vallejo
Illegal
🔗 Police in San Diego County breaking the law sharing drivers' data San Diego County
Illegal
