{"id":164136,"date":"2026-02-04T21:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164136\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:39:14","slug":"mountain-view-will-turn-off-license-plate-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164136\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain View will turn off license plate readers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-0c0b73b0=\"\">\u00a0Mountain View&#8217;s police chief said Monday that the city&#8217;s license plate reader cameras will be turned off until the City Council decides whether to keep them operating in the city.\u00a0The decision follows the police department&#8217;s criticism last week of Flock Safety, the company supplying its automated license plate reader system, after an audit turned up alleged &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; use by federal law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0February 4, 2026 5:48am PST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Mountain View&#8217;s police chief said Monday that the city&#8217;s license plate reader cameras will be turned off until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-164136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}