Reno Police Chief On The Use Of Flock Cameras

Our Take

Credit to KTVN 2 News Nevada for actually covering this instead of letting it slide through as a routine council item. Whenever a police chief stands up to sell a city council on Flock Safety cameras, the pitch is always the same: solved cases, recovered vehicles, a few dramatic anecdotes. What's almost never on the slide deck is the retention policy, the list of outside agencies who can query Reno's data, or an audit of how often the system gets searched for reasons that have nothing to do with the crime it was sold to fight.

That's the pattern we track at DeFlock USA — local law enforcement treats ALPR adoption as a procurement decision, not a surveillance expansion that deserves real public debate. Chief Solferino calling the technology "controversial" in the same breath as endorsing it is a tell: he knows residents have reason to be uneasy, but the framing still steers council toward approval rather than scrutiny. Nevada has no statewide law governing how long Flock data sits in a database or who else can pull from it, which means Reno's policy — whatever it ends up being — is the only backstop.

If you live in Reno or anywhere nearby, now's the time to find out exactly what's being proposed, not after the cameras are bolted to poles. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and head to our take-action page for ways to push your council toward transparency before the vote, not after.