Pacific Grove CA PD

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Thu Mar 13 2025
Overview
Pacific Grove CA PD uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. Pacific Grove CA PD utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, Pacific Grove CA PD 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 Pacific Grove CA PD and is never sold to 3rd parties.
Prohibited Uses
Immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harrassment 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 owned cameras
12
External organizations with access
California Highway Patrol, California State Parks, Capitola CA PD, Carmel CA PD, Contra Costa County CA SO, Corona CA PD, DNU - Glendale PD CA (Condor) , DNU - Santa Clara University Campus Safety (Raven) , Duplicate - do not use -Port of Los Angeles CA PD, DUPLICATE PLEASE DELETE, Emeryville CA PD, Hayward CA PD, Healdsburg CA PD, Hemet CA PD , Hercules CA PD, Hollister CA PD, Imperial County CA SO, Indio CA PD, Irvine CA PD, Kern County CA SO , Kings County CA DAs Office, Kings County Sheriff's Office CA , Los Angeles County CA SD, Marina CA PD, Monterey CA PD, Monterey County CA SO, Novato CA PD, Orange CA PD, Orange Coast College Campus CA PD, Orange County (CA) DA Office , Oroville CA PD, Oxnard CA PD , Pacifica CA PD, Palm Springs CA PD, Palo Alto CA PD, Pasadena CA PD, Pinole CA PD, Placentia CA PD, Placer County CA SO, Pleasant Hill CA PD, Pleasanton CA PD, Pomona CA PD, Port of Stockton CA PD, Porterville CA PD, RCATF CA PD, Redondo Beach CA PD, Redwood City CA PD, Reedley CA PD, Ridgecrest CA PD, Rio Hondo College PD CA, Rio Vista CA PD, Riverside County CA District Attorney, Riverside County CA SO, Sacramento CA DA, Salinas CA PD, San Bernardino County CA SO, San Bruno CA PD, San Diego CA PD, San Fernando CA PD, San Francisco CA PD, San Joaquin County CA SO, San Leandro CA PD, San Luis Obispo CA PD , San Luis Obispo County (CA) Sheriff , San Mateo CA PD, San Mateo County CA SO, Sand City CA PD, Santa Clara CA PD, Santa Cruz CA PD, Santa Monica CA PD, Santa Rosa CA PD, Seal Beach CA PD , Seaside CA PD, Sequoias Community College District CA PD, Shafter PD CA, Simi Valley CA PD, Solano County CA SO, Sonoma County CA SO, South Gate CA PD, South Pasadena CA PD, South San Francisco CA PD, St. Helena CA PD, Stanford University CA PD, Stockton CA PD, Suisun City CA PD , Tehachapi CA PD, Tracy CA PD, Truckee CA PD, Tustin CA PD , Ukiah CA PD, Upland CA PD , Vacaville CA PD, Vallejo CA PD, Ventura CA PD, Ventura County District Attorney's Office CA, Vernon CA PD, Visalia CA PD, Watsonville CA PD, West Covina CA PD, West Valley Mission College Dist Campus (CA), Westminster CA PD, Woodlake CA PD, Woodland CA PD, Yuba County Sheriffs Office
Hotlists Alerted On
California SVS, NCMEC Amber Alert
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
168,334
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
285
Searches in the last 30 days
54