Who runs license plate readers in Denton County?
- Active Flock Safety plate readers
- Agency
- Denton County Sheriff's Office
- Vendor
- Flock Safety
- Devices
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- Agency
- Denton County Sheriff's Office
- Vendor
- Vigilant Solutions (Motorola Solutions)
- Devices
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| System | Agency | Vendor | Status | Devices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flock Safety plate readers | Denton County Sheriff's Office | Flock Safety | Active | — |
| In-car plate readers from Vigilant and Motorola | Denton County Sheriff's Office | Vigilant Solutions (Motorola Solutions) | Active | — |
On the map
- 0
- Verified by us
- 639
- Community-reported
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), including community reporting via the DeFlock project. Tiles by OpenFreeMap.
What we do not know
Denton County Sheriff
- Where the four Phase 2 cameras are installed.
- Which agencies, homeowners associations and businesses in Denton County share their Flock cameras with the Sheriff's Office, and which can search the office's nine.
- Whether the office has a written plate reader policy for its Flock cameras, and whether the 2018 Lexipol policy attached in 2020 still governs.
- How many searches the office runs, and whether it audits them.
- Whether the county renewed the two Flock agreements after their first twelve months, and at what price.
Denton County Sheriff
- How many plate readers the Sheriff's Office runs today, and whether the later purchases replaced earlier ones.
- How long the office keeps plate reads, and whether it asked the Texas Department of Public Safety to keep its contributed reads for less than the state database's three-year minimum.
- Which agencies have requested the office's plate reader data, and how many requests were approved.
- Whether the office has audited plate reader searches, as its 2018 policy says it should, and what the audits found.
- Whether the office subscribes to commercial plate data from Vigilant's LEARN system, collected by private companies.
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 confirmed where each of them meets in Denton County and how public comment works there.
How to show up in Denton County →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 ↗