Who runs license plate readers in Riverside County?
- Active License plate readers
- Agency
- Riverside County Sheriff's Department
- Vendor
- Flock Safety
- Devices
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| System | Agency | Vendor | Status | Devices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| License plate readers | Riverside County Sheriff's Department | Flock Safety | Active | — |
On the map
- 0
- Verified by us
- 2216
- Community-reported
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What we do not know
Riverside County Sheriff
- How long a plate read is kept. The policy sets no period and defers to a service agreement that is not published. This is the single most important unanswered question about this system.
- How many cameras there are and where. The department publishes no count in any document we read, though its own Flock transparency portal may carry one. That portal is behind a bot challenge.
- What the monthly station audits have found. The policy requires them and nothing publishes the result.
- Which body approved the network, when, and at what cost. The board's record is behind a Cloudflare challenge and a host whose robots.txt does not resolve.
- Whether plate readers have been integrated with facial recognition. The policy contemplates it. The facial recognition policy the EFF Atlas cites now returns a 404.
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 Riverside County.
Go to the Riverside 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 ↗