# Recovered Praeva Analytics source status Source recovery is not the same as independent verification. The later recovered-material note narrows and corrects the earlier unsourced national case list. ## Verified primary source: California State Auditor - Report 2019-118, published February 13, 2020: https://information.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-118/index.html - Audit Results: https://information.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-118/auditresults.html - Original PDF: https://information.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2019-118.pdf - Audited agencies: Fresno Police, LAPD, Marin County Sheriff, Sacramento County Sheriff. The official Audit Results describe little to no auditing, access-control weaknesses, incomplete search reasons/case numbers, and the need for documented audit plans and findings. Under “The Agencies Have Failed to Audit the Use of Their ALPR Systems,” the auditor explains that it found no ALPR-misuse cases in the reviewed internal-affairs records but did not consider that proof that misuse had not occurred. It expressly warns that misuse could have gone unnoticed and unreported without regular auditing. This is an official oversight finding about those four agencies. The report also cites broader law-enforcement database misuse, including a Georgia bribe-for-plate-lookup example sourced to a 2016 Associated Press article. That example is cited through the auditor. The Audit Results also cite a news article reporting that CHP investigated 11 database-misuse cases in 2018, including three improper license-plate lookups through CLETS without a need to know. The audit passage does not name those cases or give their dispositions. The official report is the citation for both examples. ## Recovered wording: trust and corrective auditing The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office published a Flock/data-security notice on February 27, 2026. It says, “As your elected Sheriff, I am committed to transparency, accountability, and maintaining the trust of the communities we serve,” and describes the purpose of an ALPR-data audit conducted on February 11. The Camarillo Caller’s August 27, 2026 report quotes Commander Eric Tennessen’s August 26 Camarillo City Council presentation: “Trust isn’t something we ask for. It’s something we earn.” The article also reports the daily-to-weekly audit representation and the staff review described at the meeting. This is a dated, attributed secondary account, not the official presentation. The original slide attachment/video/transcript and timestamp have not been transferred or independently inspected. Existing canonical meeting route: https://camarillo.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting?meetingTemplateId=7839 That route is not presented as a recovered attachment URL or a verified transcript timestamp. Official VCSO notice: https://local.nixle.com/alert/12225185/ Contemporaneous Camarillo Caller report: https://www.camarillocaller.com/p/camarillo-has-37-license-plate-readers-council-wants-a-closer-look-at-flock The trust message, corrective auditing, past federal/out-of-state search availability, and represented current sharing configuration are separate assertions. ## Independently checked local reporting VC Reporter, “Surveillance vs. Safety: Police chief addresses Flock camera concerns at Camarillo City Council meeting”: https://www.vcreporter.com/news/surveillance-vs-safety-police-chief-addresses-flock-camera-concerns-at-camarillo-city-council-meeting/article_204347e6-54d6-4569-a73f-6cc604d22dd4.html The article reports Tennessen’s August 26 statement that current sharing was limited to 58 California law-enforcement agencies under MOUs, and that current sharing did not include federal/out-of-state agencies. ## Analytical recovery Texas 53,277; Georgia 47,312; Florida 26,810: transcribed candidate-associated observation-row totals from the supplied supplemental analysis and original state map. They are not counts of people, vehicles, investigations or verified searches of Ventura County. The controlled supplemental profile includes 20,275 Ohio-associated audit observation rows. The broader original state map remains available as an analytical receipt. The reviewed Chapter 03 narrative identifies six leading state populations: Texas 53,277; Georgia 47,312; Illinois 30,035; Florida 26,810; Ohio 20,275; Indiana 20,070. These total 197,779 rows, approximately 76% of the 259,190 selected-state profile. The profile contains 2,021 organization labels. Virginia has 14,569 observation rows. The reviewed narrative identifies Fairfax County Police Department at approximately 129.58 billion delivered device-hours, sixth among individual non-California organizations in the supplemental device-hours analysis. Device-hours measure requested surveillance scope over time, not the same quantity as observation-row frequency. The original supplemental device-hours image is preserved in Supporting Materials; these chapter figures follow the reviewed draft rather than a new calculation from raw agency exports. NCRIC’s mid-2024 break is explained by the branded report on page 24. Reported frequency/device-hours and network reach changed in opposite directions. “Who Is Watching Us?” is reconstructed analysis from the established evidence boundary, not a recovered quotation. ## Excluded or not relabeled - Costa Mesa, San Jose and the newer national stalking-case catalog are not presented as recovered original Praeva Analytics cases or inserted as verified Flock cases based on these notes. - The Camarillo off-duty bar charges are not ALPR allegations and are not used here to imply ALPR misuse, conviction or guilt. ## Primary receipts still needed Original Camarillo slides/video/transcript; audit review methodology, findings and exception/corrective-action records; original Flock/Axon exports; field-preserving authorization/purpose/configuration/sharing records; dated state classifications/time series; raw peer tables.