July 27, 2026
California carries more Flock records than any other state on the tracker, and its 2026 story runs through 1 question: who else can see the data. Sharing audits, a county ban, and a state law with teeth have reshaped contracts up and down the state.
The sharing reckoning
SB 34 bars California agencies from sharing ALPR data with out-of-state and federal agencies. Audits kept finding exactly that. Los Angeles ended the year’s biggest chapter: LAPD suspended use on July 11 with the contract expired and renegotiation underway, and Beverly Grove cameras have sat dark since February. West Hollywood answered differently, voting 3-2 on July 20 to keep its cameras under amended terms: no ICE or CBP access absent a court order, 30-day deletion, and a $200,000 penalty per unauthorized share.
The Santa Clara County line
County supervisors voted 3-2 to bar Flock as a vendor, and the February 25, 2026 ban left member cities’ cameras unusable: Cupertino and Saratoga both carry Suspended records under it. San Jose kept its large network but rewrote the rules in March: 30-day retention and location limits near clinics and houses of worship, with a federal lawsuit over the system still moving.
Contracts that grew anyway
The pushback did not stop approvals. Alameda County approved a $2.4 million contract on July 1. Merced County extended through 2030. San Mateo County runs 109 sheriff cameras under a policy barring out-of-state and federal access, with supervisors reviewing the contract and a 3-year audit in public session. Costa Mesa voted 6-1 on July 21 to keep its 46 cameras while directing staff to rework the contract next year.
The California hub computes the full picture live, and the cancellations ledger holds the endings month by month.
What the audits found
Alameda County is the clearest case on the site. Reporting documented 140 searches run without authorization, and the board still approved an 18-month, 2.4 million dollar extension. The record notes a conflict between the recorded 3 to 2 roll call and a broadcast report describing the vote as 4 to 3, and states the discrepancy rather than choosing quietly.
The largest customer stepped back
Los Angeles let its agreement lapse in June 2026 over what the department’s chief information officer called serious concerns around civil liberties, with 138 cameras idle while the 2 sides renegotiate control of the data. That is the biggest name in the dataset to step back, and it happened through an expiration rather than a council vote.
The ordinary deals underneath
California also holds the routine contracts that show the price range. Oakland approved a 2-year, 2,252,500-dollar agreement in December 2025 with the competitive solicitation process waived. Indio approved a 57,500-dollar lease for 20 cameras in October 2023 and now feeds its data into a regional intelligence center shared with 3 neighboring cities, which is how a small city network becomes part of a much larger one. The cost per camera page ranks what is documented, and the states page keeps California’s totals current.
Find your city. The tracker lists every documented Flock contract, the vote that approved it, and the renewal date. Alerts email you before the next decision.