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Who’s watching Norwalk

The full record of Norwalk Police Department’s license-plate-reader program — cameras, retention, monthly search volume, and which agencies see the data — kept month over month from the department’s own transparency portal.

Every figure here was read off Norwalk PD’s Flock transparency portal by a person and transcribed as displayed. Nothing is fetched automatically, estimated or averaged.

Source: Norwalk Police Department, Flock transparency portal. Figures older than 45 days are withdrawn from this page automatically.

11LPR cameras
21Days of retention
125Search sessions, last 30 days
148Camera alerts, last 30 days
434Hotlist hits, last 30 days

LPR cameras: 11

Data retention: 21 days

Number of searches: 125 user search sessions over the last 30 days

Camera alert activity: 148 alerts over the last 30 days

Number of hotlist hits: 434 over the last 30 days

Hotlists alerted on: NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert

Top offense types (LPR searches, last 30 days): Larceny/Theft Offenses; Motor Vehicle Theft/Stolen; Sex Offenses; Hit and Run/Car Accident; Wanted Person (Arrest Warrant/Fugitive)

Sharing network data with: Norwalk CT PD is not sharing data with any partner networks

Receiving network data from: Bethel CT PD, Brookville NY PD, Clarkstown NY PD, Clinton CT PD, Dutchess County NY SO, Guilderland NY PD, Hingham MA PD, Ledyard CT PD, Nassau County District Attorney Office NY, Nassau County NY PD, New Canaan CT PD, North Haven CT PD, Ridgefield CT PD, Suffolk County NY SO, Town of Killingworth CT PD, University of New Haven CT PD, Westport CT PD

Portal last updated: Tue Sep 01 2026

Transcribed by a person on September 2, 2026; the portal’s own banner then read “last updated Tue Sep 01 2026”. “Last 30 days” is the portal’s window, not ours.

Norwalk PD’s Flock transparency portal →

One reading so far (September 2, 2026) — the line begins with the second.

Read onSearches (30d)Alerts (30d)Hotlist hits (30d)CamerasRetention (days)
September 2, 20261251484341121

Every reading kept, oldest first. Each is the portal’s display on the day it was read — a 30-day window that moves with the reading date, so two readings can overlap.

Sharing network data with:

Norwalk CT PD is not sharing data with any partner networks

Receiving network data from (17 agencies):

  • Bethel CT PD
  • Brookville NY PD
  • Clarkstown NY PD
  • Clinton CT PD
  • Dutchess County NY SO
  • Guilderland NY PD
  • Hingham MA PD
  • Ledyard CT PD
  • Nassau County District Attorney Office NY
  • Nassau County NY PD
  • New Canaan CT PD
  • North Haven CT PD
  • Ridgefield CT PD
  • Suffolk County NY SO
  • Town of Killingworth CT PD
  • University of New Haven CT PD
  • Westport CT PD

Agency names as the portal lists them, read September 2, 2026. “Receiving” means Norwalk PD can search those agencies’ camera data; “sharing” means they can search Norwalk’s.

Hotlists alerted on:

  • NCIC
  • NCMEC Amber Alert

Top offense types (LPR searches, the portal’s last 30 days):

  1. Larceny/Theft Offenses
  2. Motor Vehicle Theft/Stolen
  3. Sex Offenses
  4. Hit and Run/Car Accident
  5. Wanted Person (Arrest Warrant/Fugitive)

A hotlist is a list of plates the cameras alert on automatically; the offense types are the reasons officers recorded for searches. Both as the portal shows them, read September 2, 2026.

The portal states 11 cameras. Locations not yet transcribed — the portal’s camera map is the current record.

Once a month a person opens Norwalk PD’s Flock transparency portal in a browser and copies what it displays — each number, each list, each label — into a dated record in this site’s source. This page renders that record and nothing else.

The Norwalk Sound has no automated access to the portal and will not build any: its operator challenges automated clients, and this project does not work around that. Nothing here is fetched by software, and the only arithmetic performed is plotting the transcribed search counts on the line above.

If the newest transcription is more than 45 days old, every figure on this page is withdrawn and only the link remains — an old surveillance statistic presented as current would be worse than none.

Back to Public Safety & Streets, where the short version of this record lives.