Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Medford is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Medford, Oregon recorded for Medford Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 47 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 44 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
Agency
Medford Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Jackson County
State
Oregon (OR)
Vendor
PIPS
The Medford Police Department received approval for a five-year $370,000 contract with Axon to outfit all 35 Medford Police patrol vehicles with new Fleet 3 Flock Safety automated license plate readers with ALPRing enabled in 2023.
Sources · record AOS006844
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.
47 mapped camera points inside the Medford 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 Oregon communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
A new Oregon statute governing how license plate data may be used and shared took effect, OregonLive reported.
The Oregonian / OregonLiveApr 23, 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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