Who runs license plate readers in Fresno County?
- Active License plate readers
- Agency
- Fresno Police Department
- Vendor
- Vigilant Solutions
- Devices
- —
| System | Agency | Vendor | Status | Devices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| License plate readers | Fresno Police Department | Vigilant Solutions | Active | — |
On the map
- 0
- Verified by us
- 256
- Community-reported
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What we do not know
Fresno Police
- What the department does today. Everything on this page describes what a state audit found in 2019 and published in February 2020. We have not found the department's current plate reader policy, and its transparency page carries no policy links at all.
- Whether the 982 sharing authorisations were reviewed after the audit, and how many remain.
- Whether the department still shares with the Customs and Border Protection National Targeting Center.
- How many cameras it operates now. Eight mobile cameras in 2019 is a small deployment, and small deployments are the ones that grow quietly.
- What the department told the auditor it would change. The report records that it responded it would use the audit to improve its policies; we have not read the response letters in full.
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 Fresno County.
Go to the Fresno 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 ↗