Who flies surveillance drones in Alameda County?

Alameda County Sheriff

• Whether the Board approved the AeroDome purchase on July 8, 2025. We read the Sheriff's recommendation, not the vote. Nothing on this page says the system was bought, because we do not know that it was.
• How long drone footage is kept, and what the revised General Order 6.15 changed. The public raised drone data retention at the 2023 hearings, the office said it would consult data and privacy experts, and a revised order was presented in May 2024. We have not read it.
• What the 279 deployments outside the three named models used, and what any of the 756 flights were actually for beyond the three broad purposes the report gives.
• Why the Public Protection Committee meeting scheduled for October 23, 2025 was cancelled. The report records that a supervisor requested it and gives no reason.
• Whether the office's plate reader system and its drones share data in practice, beyond the integration the procurement document describes as the reason only one vendor could supply the drone system.