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Flock Safety ALPR

Plate readers

Last reviewed: 2026-10-27Legal review: unverifiedDocumented Nevada deployment
Evidence rule

This page is public-interest research. An argument grade is not a court finding. A watchdog page describes the device. It is not proof a Nevada agency bought it or turned a feature on. A product description is not a Nevada practice. Agencies are not merged: the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Clark County School District, the City of Reno, and the Nevada Department of Public Safety stay separate. A hotlist hit is not a confirmed crime. Legal review of this page is unverified.

What it does

An automated license plate reader photographs vehicles, reads the plate, and stores the plate with the place, date, and time. Fixed cameras, cars, and trailers can carry the same kind of reader. A hotlist compares the plate with a list. A later search can look up where that plate was seen. Flock Safety is one vendor of this device. Vigilant Solutions is a different vendor and has its own card.

Privacy watchdog concerns

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation. Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR). EFF says plate-reader cameras capture plates they see, with location, date, and time, and that stored history can reveal sensitive trips. EFF says the vast majority of scans are not connected to a crime at the moment of capture. This is EFF’s claim about the device. It is not a Nevada contract and not a court holding.

Constitutional issues

Unresolved question

Fourth Amendment, Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18

Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency

Flock Safety ALPR: No decision in this library holds that a plate-reader scan is already an unreasonable search. Knotts is counterauthority for a public-road beeper, not a camera network. Jones decided a GPS device attached to a car, and the mosaic theory is not a majority rule. Carpenter does not decide an ALPR scan. Whether any query required a warrant is unresolved because the portal was not read and the contracts were not reviewed.

  • United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276 (1983). Counterauthority. United States Supreme Court. Public-road beeper tracking did not violate the Fourth Amendment on the facts of Knotts. A beeper case is not a holding about a plate-reader camera.
  • United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012). Analogical constitutional argument. United States Supreme Court. Jones held that attaching and using a GPS tracker was a search. Concurrences discuss long-term tracking. The mosaic theory is not a binding majority rule. Jones does not decide a plate reader.
  • Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018). Does not decide this technology. United States Supreme Court. Carpenter addressed historical cell-site location information. It does not decide an ALPR scan.

Statutes attached to read, not findings.

  • NRS Chapter 239. Nevada public-records law is the route to ask for contracts, policies, and logs. Citing it is not a finding that a surveillance practice is unlawful.
  • Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18. State search-and-seizure provision. This page does not quote the section. No section anchor was verified. It is listed only where a search question is actually implicated.
  • 42 U.S.C. § 1983. A civil remedy for a deprivation of federal rights under color of state law. It is not a warrant statute, and it does not itself make a surveillance practice unlawful.

Nevada use

Three Nevada records, kept apart. The portal agency is the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety, and the page was not retrieved. LVMPD is a February 22, 2026 newspaper extract of a 2023 agreement, not that portal. The Clark County School District is an August 27, 2026 snippet, and the contract was not reviewed. The City of Reno’s reported Axon replacement is on the fixed plate-reader card, not here.

The portal agency is only the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety. LVMPD is not the portal agency. The Clark County School District is a third agency. The City of Reno is not on this card.

Portal agency named on the vendor page: City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety.

Retention: Not established for any agency on this card. The City of Las Vegas portal was not read. Verification required before any 365-day claim. That unread claim is not applied to LVMPD or the Clark County School District.

  • Sharing: Not retrieved for the City of Las Vegas portal. The February 22, 2026 extract says Metro told the paper it shares with hundreds of agencies. The sharing list is not in this build. That sentence is the newspaper’s attribution, not a sharing agreement, and it is not applied to the other two agencies.

See also: Vigilant Solutions / Motorola ALPR; Fixed LPR cameras; Hotlist integration, including NCIC and missing-child lists

Policy page. An LVMPD automated-license-plate-reader policy title is identified on this site. The PDF is not attached. The policy page does not confirm the news figures and is not the City of Las Vegas portal.

Next record

Flock Safety ALPR: Keep the City portal, the LVMPD agreement, and the school-district agreement as three files. Open the portal without bypassing the interstitial.

Sources

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