At least five cities and counties in the state — including Clark County, Reno and Sparks — have penned agreements with an automated license plate reader company called Flock Safety in the past three years.
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Here are some tipsTaylor Tomlinson’s Netflix special is too ungodly for many churches. This one welcomed her.At least five cities and counties in the state — including Clark County, Reno and Sparks — have penned agreements with an automated license plate reader company called Flock Safety in the past three years. It’s brought in a new wave of cameras that collect data such as license plate information and the make and model of passing cars, then plugs that information into a national database police can use to search the location of specific vehicles, even beyond their own jurisdictions. In Clark County, there are at least 200 of these cameras, and in Washoe, there are at least 180, according to publicly available data from police departments. But as networks of cameras blanket the state, little has been done by state lawmakers to address mounting privacy concerns, especially as the Flock network allows for the tracking of a vehicle’s location virtually in real time. Policymakers told The Indy that it’s been difficult to keep up with the pace of the technology and it’s unclear just how ubiquitous the devices are. Information on where the cameras are located is not publicly available, and some jurisdictions, such as Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department , entered into the agreements without public discussion.Nevada is not among them, and a search of legislation doesn’t turn up any bills discussing the issue in 2025. “It’s a challenge,” said Assm. Selena Torres-Fossett , who has worked on legislation on other types of automated camera systems. “It’s hard for lawmakers to legislate what doesn’t currently exist.”The ever-changing nature of the technology field — Flock, founded in 2017, only came to Las Vegas in 2023 — has been a struggle for lawmakers across the country, on both the local and national level. However, residents and lawmakers agree something needs to be done. Torres-Fossett, who pushed for a bill that would have authorized the use of automated traffic enforcement cameras, such as red light cameras, this past legislative session, said there have been several conversations among lawmakers to address rising privacy concerns from the technology. She said she was particularly concerned about Flock cameras being used for immigration enforcement reasons or about the potential of data being sold to third parties, adding that to her knowledge, no state policies prohibit such use. Althoughprohibits the government from using photographic or digital equipment to gather evidence to issue a civil or traffic citation, it provides limited exceptions for law enforcement. “I don’t want law enforcement to be able to access my data without my consent,” Torres-Fossett told The Nevada Independent in an interview. “It’s very big brother.”of the state’s use of AI — said he wasn’t sure if he would introduce a bill on the topic, but added he was incredibly concerned about the technology and is interested in protecting the data of Nevada residents from being shared and sold by tech companies. Right now, he said, residents don’t realize how invasive and ubiquitous the technology is.for deployment in “high-crime areas,” integrating not only Flock cameras but county-owned park cameras and cameras operated by “other partners.” In, the sheriff’s office said they hope the cameras will help lower burglary rates but they “don’t want to intrude on the private affairs of people.”of the city’s Flock will help them identify suspects in a “much more timely fashion so we can bring those people to justice” and that they are focusing on the vehicle, not the person. A spokesperson for Las Vegas policeAnd it’s not just Flock. Jurisdictions have also struck deals with other automated license plate reader companies, such as a little-known company called Vigilant Solutions. In 2018 alone, Sparks police scanned 420,506 license plates using that technology, according to data from“Some people will say ‘Oh it’s great, anything to help law enforcement because I’m never going to do anything wrong,’” Daly said. “Sooner or later, people will wake up to it.”“I do believe there is a clash coming with privacy rights over all this,” Daly said. “How exactly that gets done, where the line is, I’m sure will be a source of a lot of income for lobbyists.”Though the technology is relatively new, some experts in Nevada have been sounding the alarm on Flock and other technology issues for years. Dave Maass, director of investigations for Electronic Frontier Foundation and instructor at UNR, said he’s been frustrated by the lack of guardrails in the state. “Nevada in particular, they’ve been bad on fighting stuff,” Maass said, adding that Nevada’s 2019 effort to protect data privacy was “a joke” among those concerned with protections against tech., sponsored by Sen. Nicole Cannizzaro and signed into law by Gov. Steve Sisolak , requires owners of certain websites to create a portal where consumers can submit a request for them not to sell their information.Brandon Bunce, a Las Vegas resident and an IT professional who started speaking regularly at Clark County Commission meetings this year to protest the Flock cameras, said it was “impossible” to keep up with the technology. Though he’s been appealing to local leaders, Bunce said he would love to see any legislation from the state on the issue to limit or stop private companies such as Flock from storing and sharing data on citizens. “I’m absolutely frustrated,” Bunce said of the lack of legislation in the state. “I think it’s a classic case of tech accelerating ahead of governance.”Does Flock work with Nevada’s libertarian streak? Maass said Flock’s implementation was at odds with what he knew of Nevada, a state with a healthy skepticism of government. “My sense of people in Nevada is that they’re very skeptical of the government and they value their freedom and liberty,” Maass said. “I think license plate readers — on a very philosophical and fundamental level — really harm that.” Other states have taken steps to protect citizens against Flock overreach. In February, the New Mexico Legislature passed a bill curtailing police agencies’ ability to share the data with out-of-state, third-party agenciesit will not be used for federal law enforcement purposes, for prosecuting medical procedures that are legal in New Mexico, such as abortion, or for infringing on civil liberties. The bill will take effect this summer.Bunce, a former libertarian Republican who now identifies as an independent, said the issue was key in his decision to shift more to the center of the political spectrum. A native Nevadan raised in a conservative household, he said he was confused with conservatives’ hesitation on speaking out about Flock and other surveillance technologies. “I’ve only been able to get through to people on the left, which is super weird to me because I thought the right would be against this sort of thing,” Bunce said. “It’s not a left versus right thing. This is a company making billions off of our data.” Bunce said legislators don’t understand that the data farmed from companies like Flock is “digital gold” to investors.
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