South San Francisco CA PD

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Fri Aug 29 2025
Overview
South San Francisco PD uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising individual privacy. South San Francisco PD utilizes retroactive searches to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, South San Francisco 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 South San Francisco 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
37
External organizations with access
Atherton CA PD, Belmont CA PD, Brisbane CA PD, Burlingame CA PD, Colma CA PD, Daly City CA PD, East Palo Alto CA PD, Foster City CA PD, Hillsborough CA PD, Pacifica CA PD, Redwood City CA PD, San Bruno CA PD, San Francisco CA PD, San Mateo CA PD, San Mateo County CA SO
Hotlists Alerted On
California SVS, NCMEC Amber Alert
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
710,207
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
2,753
Searches in the last 30 days
482
Public Search Audit
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