{"id":479587,"date":"2026-09-29T18:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479587\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T18:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:31:25","slug":"sf-to-keep-flock-cameras-with-new-limits-on-data-access-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479587\/","title":{"rendered":"SF to keep Flock cameras with new limits on data access \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco will keep its Flock license plate cameras but put new limits on who can access the data they record, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new policy, officers will need approval from leadership and a connection to an active criminal investigation to search license plate data.<\/p>\n<p>The data will also be removed from Flock&#8217;s platform after 30 days. San Francisco police will keep their own copy for up to a year.<\/p>\n<p>Lurie said the cameras help police solve crimes as concerns grow about how the data could be misused.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblymember Matt Haney also plans to introduce a state bill that would make it a crime for officers to improperly share license plate data.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is expected sometime in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco will keep its Flock license plate cameras but put new limits on who can access the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-479587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479587","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=479587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}