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San Francisco Keeps Flock Cameras — With New Limits on Police Searches
Key Takeaways
- San Francisco adopted a policy late last month keeping its more than 400 Flock license plate readers in service while adding new restrictions on data searches.
- Officers must get supervisor approval and show a connection to an active criminal investigation to search camera data older than 30 days.
- Car thefts fell nearly 59 percent and break-ins more than 82 percent from January to August 2026 versus the same period in 2022, per an NPR analysis of SFPD data.
- It remains unclear how much of the decline is attributable to Flock, given the national post-COVID crime drop and an AI-driven gentrification wave.
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