A total of 1,182 Flock Safety and other surveillance cameras are documented across 99 Utah municipalities and 96 unincorporated county areas, according to a report published August 31. These documented cameras are operated by 24 agencies across the state.
The data regarding these camera deployments was sourced from public procurement records, the Flock Safety transparency portal, the EFF Atlas of Surveillance, and the DeFlock community mapping project. While 99 towns are tracked, the number of documented cameras may shift as agencies disclose new deployments or as the DeFlock community verifies additional locations.
In Spanish Fork, the Spanish Fork Police Department operates 14 Flock cameras. Other municipalities with documented deployments include Provo, West Jordan, Cedar City, Orem, Saratoga Springs, Centerville, Clinton, North Salt Lake, Pleasant Grove, Tooele, North Ogden, Springville, Grantsville, and Highland.
Utah state law, specifically Utah Code § 41-6a-2003, caps the retention of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) data at 9 months for non-hit records. Additionally, the state has no statute restricting the sharing of ALPR data with federal agencies, including immigration enforcement.
The camera counts and locations are compiled from multiple public sources, including the EFF Atlas of Surveillance for contracts and vendor inventory, the Flock Safety transparency portal for per-agency deployment statistics, and community-verified maps from DeFlock and OpenStreetMap.
