# LAPD Office of Inspector General ALPR audit, July 2026 > *Audited source extract. The dossier was used only as a lead; the underlying source was independently acquired and checked on 2026-07-20.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** Los Angeles Police Commission, Office of Inspector General - **Original dossier URL:** https://www.lapdpolicecom.lacity.org/071426/BPC_26-184x.pdf - **Resolved/canonical URL used:** https://www.lapdpolicecom.lacity.org/071426/BPC_26-184x.pdf - **Publication date:** 2026-07-14 - **Underlying event or version:** 2025-08-01/2025-09-30 - **Archived:** 2026-07-20, from unauthenticated public access; no cookies, tokens, or login state retained - **Wayback snapshot:** save failed on 2026-07-20 after the archive service returned HTTP 403; retry pending ## Verification verdict **supported with narrower wording** — The July 2026 audit supports the exact mixed-program counts, incomplete outcome records, contract/access gaps, special five-year Flock retention term, and 161 accurate plate matches whose vehicles were no longer stolen. It is not a controlled Flock OCR study and yields no Flock false-positive rate. ## Claim boundary This source is authoritative only within the source class and limitations stated above. ## Extract **Extracted-text lines 172-176:** > enforcement actions taken in response to ALPR alerts. > • > The Department’s ALPR cameras generated 210,568,103 license plate reads between > August 1 and September 30, 2025. > • **Extracted-text lines 178-182:** > August 1 and September 30, 2025: > o > Officers confirmed 161 alerts as accurate matches to the scanned license plate; > however, subsequent investigation determined that the vehicles had not been > stolen. **Extracted-text lines 184-188:** > Three hundred, thirty-seven alerts resulted in the recovery of stolen vehicles. > o > Sixty-eight alerts resulted in 74 arrests. > o > Nine alerts resulted in pursuits. **Extracted-text lines 286-290:** > 1.0 > their application to search Axon-captured ALPR information. Although Axon ALPR data is > owned by the LAPD and not Flock, the Department does not currently have a written agreement > with Flock or Axon outlining security measures and protocols to secure Axon ALPR data within > Flock’s system. Flock’s access to Axon data is unknown in the absence of a written agreement. **Extracted-text lines 639-643:** > Department policy outlines the guidelines for the management, storage, and security of ALPR > data captured, noting all data shall be stored on a Department approved storage system compliant > with CJIS.42, 43 Specifically, Axon and Motorola data are stored for five years in their > application specific databases but are searchable by users for only two years. It is only upon > 38 The OIG's request was limited ICE and did not encompass other agencies within the Department of Homeland **Extracted-text lines 819-823:** > Accordingly, the compiled data cannot be considered a complete or accurate measure of all > actions taken in response to alerts during the two-month review period. > Based on available Axon data, the OIG determined that of the 50,183 total alerts, 5,911 were > unique license plates. During the two-month review period, the Department’s ALPR cameras > generated 210,568,103 license plate reads. **Extracted-text lines 854-858:** > financial liability concerns. > D. Stolen Vehicles and Stolen License Plates Recovered > The OIG found that during the two-month review period, 337 stolen vehicles were recovered > without incident. Valley Bureau recovered the most vehicles, with 144 recoveries, followed by > Central Bureau with 72, South Bureau with 70, West Bureau with 44, and seven with Traffic **Extracted-text lines 883-887:** > stop based on the information listed when verifying the license plate number. > F. Vehicle Pursuits > The OIG identified nine vehicle pursuits that resulted from Hot List alerts during the review > period. Of these nine pursuits: > • **Wayback failure**: The bounded Save Page Now pass stopped after the archive service returned HTTP 403 on the first request. This source was not individually retried; retry pending. ## Notes - Tier: 2 — Tier 2 primary public record. - The excerpt is bounded to the claims audited here; consult the preserved original for full context. - Cited by: see `citing_pages:` frontmatter; populated after wiki integration.