November 29, 2025
For a general presentation of the misnamed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) and Flock Safety in particular, see deflock.me and Eyes On Flock.
The terminology used in these pages.
Looking at ALPR logs of a few agencies:
In reponse to request 25-731, the city of Salinas refused to provide data.
As of November 21, 2025, the Palo Alto Police Department has not responded to a request sent on August 27, 2025.
The tools to process the data obtained from agencies are at https://github.com/eric-muller/alpr.
The data used for the reports above can be found here.
November 29, 2025: A closer look at the number of cameras involved in queries of Los Altos data by outside agencies.
November 22, 2025: Added Santa Clara PD. Small change that affect Los Altos PD.
November 21, 2025: Added Palo Alto PD.
November 20, 2025: Added Fairfield PD.
October 13, 2025: first version.