Humboldt County CA SO

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Thu Dec 11 2025
Overview
Humboldt County CA SO uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. Humboldt County CA SO utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, Humboldt County CA SO utilizes real time alerting of hotlist vehicles to capture wanted criminals. In an effort to ensure proper usage and guardrails are in place, they have made the below policies and usage statistics available to the public.
Policies
What's Detected
License Plates, Vehicles
What's Not Detected
Facial recognition, People, Gender, Race
Acceptable Use Policy
Data is used for law enforcement purposes only. Data is owned by Humboldt County CA SO and is never sold to 3rd parties.
Prohibited Uses
Immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, usage based solely on a protected class (i.e. race, sex, religion), Personal use.
Access Policy
All system access requires a valid reason and is stored indefinitely.
Hotlist Policy
Hotlist hits are required to be human verified prior to action.
Usage
Data retention (in days)
30 days
Number of LPR and other cameras
9
Organizations granted access to Humboldt County CA SO data
San Jose State University CA, Alameda County CA SO, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anderson CA PD, Blue Lake Rancheria Tribal PD, Butte County CA SO, Cal Fire , California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CA), California Highway Patrol, California State Parks, Danville CA PD, Del Norte County CA SO, El Dorado County CA SO, El Segundo CA PD, Greenfield CA PD, Hemet CA PD , Marin County CA DA, Marin County CA SO, Mendocino County SO-CA, Modoc County CA SO, Monterey Park CA PD, Mountain View CA PD (Santa Clara County), Napa County CA SO, Nevada County CA SO, Pasadena CA PD, Placer County CA DA Office, Placer County CA SO, Sacramento CA DA, San Luis Obispo County (CA) Sheriff , Solano County CA SO, Sonoma County CA SO, Sutter County CA SO , Tehama County CA SO, Trinity County SO CA , Tulare County CA SO, Visalia CA PD, Williams CA PD, Yolo County CA SO, Yuba County Sheriffs Office
Hotlists Alerted On
California SVS, NCMEC Amber Alert
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
95,571
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
144
Searches in the last 30 days
143
Public Search Audit
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Additional Info
Recent Success Story
Humboldt County Sheriff's Office full ALPR policy can be viewed at the URL below:
https://humboldtgov.org/DocumentCenter/View/144358/HCSO-Policy-437