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Are there Flock cameras in Reno, Nevada?
Yep. Reno is flocked.
Are there Flock cameras in Reno, Nevada?
Yes. Public records in our database document Flock Safety automated license plate readers in Reno, Nevada recorded for Reno Police Department and Washoe County Sheriff's Office. Separately, 94 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 85 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agencies
- Reno Police Department and Washoe County Sheriff's Office
- Vendor
- Flock Safety
- County
- Washoe County
- Records on file
- 2
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 94
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 85
- Latest cited source
- 4/30/2019
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Reno Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Washoe County
State
Nevada (NV)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Reno Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Previously it used Vigilant Solutions ALPR.
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 AOS004151
- Flock Safety ↗
- This is Reno ↗12/20/2024
- MuckRock ↗
Agency
Washoe County Sheriff's Office
Agency type
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
County
County
Washoe County
State
Nevada (NV)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Washoe County Sheriff's Office uses 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 AOS007044
- ACLU ↗09/14/2012
- Washoe County Sheriff's Office ↗09/17/2024
- Medium ↗4/30/2019
What this record does not say
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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Sources & records
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.
Documented deployment records
- Flock Safety ↗Reno Police Department · record AOS004151
- This is Reno ↗Reno Police Department · 12/20/2024 · record AOS004151
- MuckRock ↗Reno Police Department · record AOS004151
- ACLU ↗Washoe County Sheriff's Office · 09/14/2012 · record AOS007044
- Washoe County Sheriff's Office ↗Washoe County Sheriff's Office · 09/17/2024 · record AOS007044
- Medium ↗Washoe County Sheriff's Office · 4/30/2019 · record AOS007044
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
94 mapped camera points inside the Reno 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.
Nearby documented deployments
Other Nevada communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
- SparksVerified Flock
- Boulder CityALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- Carson CityALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- HawthorneVerified Flock
- HendersonALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- Las VegasVerified Flock
- MesquiteALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- North Las VegasALPR — vendor unconfirmed
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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