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Who runs license plate readers in Mono County?

On the map

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Verified by us
20
Community-reported

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What we do not know

Mono County Sheriff

  • Which vendor, fixed readers, mobile readers, and data services are currently in use?
  • Where are readers deployed, and when was each activated or removed?
  • What are the current sharing network, user roles, query volume, hit rate, and audit findings?
  • What grant, contract, invoice, and Board records support the deployment?

Mammoth Lakes Police

  • Which contract, amendment, invoice, or device schedule explains the change from eight authorized cameras to ten current cameras?
  • How do the ten current cameras relate to the three additional partner cameras?
  • Which institutions own each partner device, and what approvals, costs, policies, and access rights apply?
  • Are Raven sensors installed and enabled, and what retention, testing, audit, and complaint rules govern them?
  • What do the current sharing list, query-purpose report, hit statistics, and access audits show?

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 Mono County.

Go to the Mono 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 ↗