Verified Flock
Yep. Vernon is flocked.
Yes. Public records in our database document Flock Safety automated license plate readers in Vernon, California recorded for Vernon Police Department. Separately, 8 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 7 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
Agency
Vernon Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Los Angeles County
State
California (CA)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Vernon Police Department operates automated license plate readers.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS000943
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
8 mapped camera points inside the Vernon boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other California communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
Grass Valley's police chief announced the department would indefinitely suspend fixed ALPR use and exercise its option to cancel the Flock contract; most of the cameras came down the next morning. This is the stage past a council debate — hardware physically off the poles.
The UnionAug 13, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
A federal judge in the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss in McGinty v. Reimagined Parking, holding the plaintiff plausibly alleged harm to his 'right to know' about ALPR use in two parking garages. The analysis, written by defense-side lawyers, argues it is the first federal decision to follow California state-court reasoning that inadequate ALPR disclosure alone can survive dismissal. It involves parking-operator ALPR rather than Flock, but the disclosure theory travels.
Global Privacy Watch (Seyfarth Shaw)Aug 13, 2026News reportingOther ALPR
After the department acknowledged that federal immigration agencies had access to its ALPR data — which California law restricts — NSPR looks at what happens to Chico's cameras next. The city has an internal investigation underway; the police chief has said the sharing should not have happened.
North State Public RadioAug 12, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
A judge tentatively sided with San Jose, accepting the city's argument that its roughly 500 interconnected plate readers should be treated like ordinary surveillance cameras. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which sued in late 2025, argues such networks amount to digital location tracking that demands a higher legal standard. A final ruling could shape how large ALPR networks are governed in California.
KTVU FOX 2Aug 6, 2026News reportingOther ALPR
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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