Does Union City have Flock cameras?
Yes. Union City CA PD operates 20 Flock Safety automatic license plate readers, according to the transparency portal Flock publishes for the agency. Every figure on this page comes from that portal — none of it is estimated, and the ones the agency does not publish are simply absent.
What the portal publishes
- Cameras owned
- 20
- Days of retention
- 30
- Searches, last 30 days
- 485
- Outside orgs with access
- 10
Plate reads collected by Union City CA PD are held for 30 days before deletion. Retention is the number that decides how much of your ordinary driving is searchable at any moment — a 30-day window means a month of your movements, not just the day you were near a camera.
The portal reports 485 searches of that data in the most recent 30-day window, against 565,865 vehicle detections over the same period.
It also reports 4,724 hotlist hits — reads that matched a list the agency or one of its partners had loaded.
10 outside organizations have access to this agency’s plate data. Sharing is the part of ALPR that surprises people most: a read collected on your street is searchable by departments you have never heard of and never voted for.
Blank fields mean the agency does not publish that number, not that the number is zero.
Where these cameras are
2 camera sites in this agency’s deployment have been matched to a location and appear on the FlockDetour map. Open the map to see them against the roads you actually drive, and to compare a route with a detour around them.
Mapped sites come from open community data and are a lower bound on what is installed — they will not always match the portal count above, which is the agency’s own figure.
Other Flock agencies in California
Where these figures come from
Flock Safety publishes a transparency portal for each customer agency. The figures above were read from that portal by The News & Observer / McClatchy (private_eyes) and ingested here unchanged. Check them at the source — and if the portal has moved on since this page was built, the portal is right and this page is stale.
- Union City CA PD transparency portalFlock Safety’s official disclosure for this agency
- The News & Observer / McClatchy (private_eyes)The dataset this page is built from
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