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What are Flock cameras and ALPRs?
ALPR stands for Automated License Plate Reader: a camera system that captures license plates and vehicle information and turns those observations into searchable data. Flock Safety is the vendor Livermore Police identifies for its ALPR system. Livermore Police says its Flock system supports retroactive searches and real-time hot-list alerts.
Livermore owns and maintains approximately 310 centerline miles of paved streets. At the 78-camera count reported by Livermore Police, that's roughly one ALPR for every 4.0 miles (6,995 yards) of Livermore streets.
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Livermore at a Glance
These figures are tied to the dated official records linked in each row. Where a future number is not specified in the record, we say so rather than guess.
| Measure | Current / latest verified record | Future projection in the record | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flock / ALPR cameras | 78 cameras in Livermore Police's 2025 ALPR Annual Report.
Put another way: Livermore owns and maintains approximately 310 centerline miles of paved streets. At that reported camera count, that's roughly one ALPR for every 4.0 miles (6,995 yards) of Livermore streets. City street-mileage source → | The City's capital plan says project PS201722 will increase the number of ALPR systems and identifies remaining downtown-core installations after the L Street Garage is completed. It does not state a final future camera count. | 2025 ALPR report Capital plan |
| Budget / project funding | $55,000 in FY 2025–26 for ALPR project PS201722, funded from Asset Seizure – County. | The same project table shows $0 in each listed period after FY 2025–26 through FY 2030–45. That is the City's published project projection, not a claim that no future ALPR spending can ever be approved. | FY 2025–2030 Capital Improvement Plan |
| Retention / searchable travel history | Up to one year. LPD Policy 460 says ALPR data on the server should be stored for a maximum of one year, then purged unless an evidence-related exception applies. | No shorter future Livermore retention period has been verified in the current LPD policy cited here. | LPD Policy 460 |
The contract price is not the Total Cost of Ownership.
The published Flock contract or project expenditure represents only the costs identified in those records. It should not be interpreted as the complete cost to Livermore taxpayers of operating an ALPR surveillance program.
Operating the program also consumes resources such as personnel time for administration, monitoring, investigations and dispatch; police and IT management; networking and communications; servers, storage and other IT infrastructure; cybersecurity; facilities and real estate; electricity and cooling; maintenance; training; records management; legal and compliance work; and other support.
Many of those resources may already exist and would continue to exist without Flock. Existing does not mean free. The ALPR program consumes a portion of shared personnel, infrastructure, facilities and operating resources, and the appropriate portion of those expenses contributes to the program's Total Cost of Ownership.
DeFlock distinguishes between incremental costs created specifically by the ALPR program and allocated costs representing the program's appropriate share of existing resources. Both matter when determining what the program actually costs taxpayers.
DeFlock Livermore is working to identify those additional costs so the public can see something closer to the true Total Cost of Ownership—not merely the price appearing on the vendor contract or project budget.
Where are Flock cameras in and around Livermore?
This community-maintained DeFlock map shows reported automated license-plate-reader locations around Livermore. Camera locations can change, and a community map may not identify every camera.
They are keeping ALPR images and data about all of our whereabouts online, searchable, and hack-able, for one full year. That's a long time for our personal travels to be kept on-file by the government that we fund.
Livermore's written policy permits up to one year of retention. That stands out even more now that Flock has announced that its default LPR retention period will fall from 30 days to seven days. Flock's default does not automatically override a municipality's own policy; Flock says customers control retention according to their policies and legal requirements.
No reasonable suspicion or probable cause required: Livermore's Policy 460 also says reasonable suspicion or probable cause is not required before using an ALPR.
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Where are the cameras?
The community-maintained DeFlock map shows known ALPR camera locations. Camera locations can change and a community map may not identify every camera.
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One ALPR camera is one ALPR camera too many.
That is our campaign position. We oppose routine, suspicionless collection of vehicle-location data and want Livermore to end its Flock program.
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