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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by thaumaturgy on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:55PM (#48895467)
Salem, Oregon, assembled its own using OpenALPR and an on-prem server. There are plenty of reasonable criticisms of that approach too, but it's currently the farthest thing from Flock on the municipal mass-surveillance tech scale bar that I'm aware of.
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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by vablings on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:05PM (#48895640)
"The system does not utilize facial recognition and does not have automated functions, such as automatically running license plates through the state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) or Law Enforcement Data System (LEDS) databases. All license plates must still be verified by an investigator and then individually queried through the appropriate database."

This sounds like a lot more than your average flock installation at a local PD

https://salem.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7375982...

OpenALPR is not open source despite the open name, sigh

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Re:LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire by input_sh on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:20PM (#48895844)
AGPL-licensed: https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr

(Not updated in years though.)

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