Who receives the plate reads?
A Flock agency can grant any other agency access to its cameras’ reads. Alpharetta’s list of those grants — the export the city produced under the Georgia Open Records Act, current to 31 July 2026 — names 1,562 partners in 35 states and the District of Columbia. It is one agency’s view of the network: every row is a relationship this city holds, and an agency absent here may share with everyone except Alpharetta.
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Text alternative: 1,562 agencies appear on Alpharetta’s sharing list, spread across 35 states and the District of Columbia. 1,389 of them have a Census point and can be drawn; 173 cannot. 951 receive Alpharetta’s reads and send none back, 512 exchange both ways, and 99 send only. The median partner is 279 miles away and the farthest is Benton County, WA — 2,021 mi. Every figure is stated in the panels below.
How the sharing runs, and how far
Mostly one direction
The record separates who can query Alpharetta’s reads from whose reads Alpharetta can query. Of 1,562 partners, 951 receive the city’s plate reads and send nothing back. 99 send and receive nothing. 512 exchange both ways.
Who they are: 950 police · 454 sheriffs · 46 school districts · 30 state agencies · 29 private participants (HOAs and subdivisions — counted, never named) · 17 task forces · 36 others.
How far the reads travel
Median distance to a partner: 279 miles — roughly Alpharetta to Montgomery. The farthest, Benton County, WA, is 2,021 miles and three time zones away.
Distances run between Census jurisdiction points — approximate by tens of miles at county scale.
177,387,880 people live in the jurisdictions reached
Residents of reached jurisdictions, not people surveilled — and a one-hop floor: it counts only the places named in this one export. Most of the reach arrives through 18 statewide agencies, each of which absorbs its whole state’s population in this count.
What the paper trail does and does not show
The task force was already networked
In November 2025 the Atlanta-Carolinas HIDTA — a federal drug-task-force program — signed an agreement to integrate members’ license-plate readers. Its published roster names 100 local police departments and sheriff’s offices. Two-thirds of them were already exchanging plate reads with Alpharetta before the paper was signed.
GA 31/49 · NC 21/50 · SC 14/31. The roster is task-force participation, not the plate-reader project’s member list — that list appears nowhere public. The 30 state and federal bodies on the roster match nothing, as expected: they do not run their own Flock tenancies. Source: hidta.json.
Documented nowhere
Cross-checking every partner against the EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance — the field’s reference inventory — 15.4% of the organizations in this export have no record anywhere in it.
An upper bound by construction — the join is exact on name, state, and kind, so it undercounts matches. The tighter floor: 112 partners appear in no Atlas record and in no transparency-portal scrape either. Source: atlas_gap.json.