What they keep and who they share

Privacy

Retention, warrants, audit logs, federal search, stalking, false reads. Vendor blogs are not a statute.

1. Local

   The city does not control the network

   Once reads hit the vendor cloud, other agencies on the network can search them. Local use-policies bind the home agency. They do not bind a detective two states over. Default sharing is a setting, not a vote.

   Demand the sharing matrix and 90 days of audit logs.

   supportedevidence

   State of Surveillance — Flock network, ICE search pathways, state statutes · ACLU — How to fight Flock and other ALPR mass surveillance

2. County

   Stalking cases start here

   Documented misuse — an officer querying a partner’s plate — happens at the agency that holds a login. Kansas’s arrest is the cited case. Local policy is a memo. A state crime is a deterrent.

   Require named-case numbers that a supervisor can verify.

   supportedevidence

   TechTimes — Flock reforms leave the warrant gap open; 80+ communities canceled in 2026 · ACLU — How to fight Flock and other ALPR mass surveillance · NYT — In red states, law-and-order Republicans turn against Flock cameras

3. State

   A patchwork. None of it is a full ban

   Finding Flock (Aug 2026) lists 19 states whose ALPR-specific statutes they read against official text — a floor, not a census. New Hampshire’s unmatched-read deletion (minutes, RSA 261:75-b) is the shortest retrieved cap. Florida’s § 316.0777 is a ROW and records rule, not a ban. None of these is the petition’s ask.

   Introduce a ban. If a ban fails, introduce warrant + retention + share-close.

   supportedevidence

   Finding Flock — ALPR laws by state (19 statutes read against official text) · N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:75-b — unmatched plate reads purged within 3 minutes · CRS IN12735 — Federal Legislation and Oversight of Law Enforcement Use of ALPRs · § 316.0777, Fla. Stat. — ALPR in State Highway System right-of-way

4. Federal

   Three doors into the same file

   Front door: a federal contract. Back door: a local share toggle. Side door: a typed case number the vendor does not verify as a warrant. H.R. 9716 (PRIVACY Act), as described by CRS, would hit federal access — not the officer at the keyboard. IJ’s PEEPS model would warrant reads older than 24 hours.

   Close all three doors in state law while Congress argues.

   supportedevidence

   CRS IN12735 — Federal Legislation and Oversight of Law Enforcement Use of ALPRs · H.R. 9716, 119th Cong. — PRIVACY Act (Self) — warrant for federal access to state/local ALPR data · TechTimes — Flock reforms leave the warrant gap open; 80+ communities canceled in 2026 · Institute for Justice — PEEPS Act model (warrant for ALPR data older than 24 hours)