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Who runs license plate readers in Tehama County?

On the map

0
Verified by us
13
Community-reported

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What we do not know

Tehama County Sheriff

  • What the office actually operates. No count, vendor, contract or cost is established anywhere.
  • Whether the office runs fixed cameras. The policy describes data transferred from vehicles and has no vocabulary for anything on a pole.
  • When the Board of Supervisors approved this and at what cost. The board record is in our corpus and unscanned.
  • What the regular audits the policy requires have found.
  • Whether a three-agency programme with Corning and Red Bluff police departments exists, and if so whose policy governs the shared data.

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 Tehama County.

Go to the Tehama 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 ↗