United States, Pinellas County, Florida
Pinellas County Sheriff's Office
Automated licence plate readers
OperationalJournalismPAI-67FD309C
- Body
- Pinellas County Sheriff's Office
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Pinellas County, Florida
- Technology
- Automated licence plate readers
- Supplier
- Not stated in the source
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- Not known
- Legal basis
- Not stated in the source
- Oversight
- Not stated in the source
- Evidence
- Journalism
Named reporting by a reputable outlet - Source
- St. Pete Catalyst, republished by WUSF, 29 October 2026
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-67FD309C
Notes
The St. Pete Catalyst, as carried by WUSF on 29 October 2026, reported that Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said there are just under 300 fixed licence plate reader cameras in the county, plus plate-reading technology in each of the office's 560 patrol cars. The article does not state the vendor of the office's own system; it refers to cameras 'like Flock cameras' and pictures a Flock reader. Gualtieri said he would move cameras elsewhere if county commissioners removed them from county property, and that his agency 'has all along been using audit tools' to monitor the technology. The article reports that a former deputy was arrested in September after allegedly using a plate reader database hundreds of times to track a woman. County commissioners discussed a proposed restriction on 27 October; no vote was reported. FOX 13 reported on 2 September 2026 that Gualtieri said the office would comply with the FDOT order on state roads but keep county-owned cameras up.
Automated licence plate readers elsewhere in United States
See them in the tracker| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Police DepartmentANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) | United StatesCalifornia | Axon | 2026 | Trial | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionPredictive Intelligence Program: licence plate reader networks with a travel-pattern algorithm | United StatesBorder Patrol: southwest and northern borders and interior highways | — | — | Operational | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementLicence plate reader data: commercial database queries and AI plate capture and analysis | United StatesNationwide (Enforcement and Removal Operations and Homeland Security Investigations) | Motorola Solutions (per the DHS inventory); West Publishing (Thomson Reuters) for commercial plate data, per Biometric Update | — | Operational | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionLand Border Integration: licence plate and occupant face recognition at land ports (Rekor) | United StatesLand ports of entry | Rekor | 2021 | Operational | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionAirship Outpost identification of conveyances | United StatesNationwide | Airship | 2023 | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationLicence plate readers (three inventory entries) | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Drug Enforcement AdministrationLicence plate readers (DEASIL programme and state, federal and commercial partner data) | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesAccess to ELSAG licence plate readers run by HIDTA partners | United StatesNationwide | Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions LLC | — | Operational | |
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesThomson Reuters Vigilant Vehicle Manager | United StatesNationwide | Motorola | — | Operational | |
| Criminal Division, US Department of JusticeThomson Reuters CLEAR licence plate recognition | United StatesNationwide | Thomson Reuters | — | Operational | |
| US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector GeneralAccess to the Nlets Nationwide Licence Plate Reader Pointer Index | United StatesNationwide | Thomson Reuters | — | Operational | |
| Baltimore Police DepartmentAxon licence plate readers | United StatesBaltimore, Maryland | Axon | — | Proposed |