Pacific Grove CA PD

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Thu Oct 30 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 LPR and other cameras
12
Organizations granted access to Pacific Grove CA PD data
California Highway Patrol, California State Parks, Capitola CA PD, Carmel CA PD, Marina CA PD, Monterey CA PD, Monterey County CA SO, Monterey County District Attorney's Office, Salinas CA PD, Sand City CA PD, Santa Cruz CA PD, Seaside CA PD, Watsonville CA PD
Hotlists Alerted On
California SVS, NCMEC Amber Alert
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
160,890
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
179
Searches in the last 30 days
43