Who runs license plate readers in Del Norte County?
- Active License plate readers
- Agency
- Del Norte County Sheriff's Office
- Vendor
- Flock Safety
- Devices
- —
| System | Agency | Vendor | Status | Devices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| License plate readers | Del Norte County Sheriff's Office | Flock Safety | Active | — |
On the map
- 0
- Verified by us
- 10
- Community-reported
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What we do not know
Del Norte County Sheriff
- How long the data is actually kept. The order form and the published policy give different figures and neither the board nor the public got an explanation.
- Which community partners install the same cameras, and what access county law enforcement has to them.
- Where the six cameras are.
- Whether the ALPR policy has been revised since 2020, and whether the current version still describes a vehicle-mounted system.
- What the audits Policy 472 requires have found, and whether any request for this county's data has come from outside California.
- Whether the Sheriff returned to the board with the data and statistics a supervisor asked for in August 2026.
What license plate readers are
An automated license plate reader photographs every passing vehicle and records the plate, the time and the place. It does not watch suspects. It logs everyone, and the record is usually kept on a vendor’s servers.
How they work, why agencies buy them, and every county we have documented →
What you can do
Civic action
Show up
This technology is bought and renewed by boards, councils and committees that meet in public. We have not yet confirmed where each of them meets in Del Norte County.
Go to the Del Norte County hub →Personal protection
Protect yourself
Practical steps to shrink your personal data trail. Our guides publish at launch; until then, EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense is the best starting point.
Surveillance Self-Defense ↗