Nevada Independent investigation revealed Clark County School District police tapped into Flock license-plate-reader network

On August 25, 2026, The Nevada Independent reported that the Clark County School District (CCSD) Police Department -- serving the fifth-largest school district in the country -- has an agreement with license-plate-reader company Flock Safety granting access to "all shared cameras within Clark County and the Las Vegas area," a claim the district confirmed on the record. A procedural memo governing use of that access took effect inside the CCSD Police Department the same day the district received the outlet's public-records request about the arrangement; it restricts queries to the department's Investigations Bureau, requires an assigned case number and bureau-commander authorization, and limits use to felony, firearms, narcotics, and child-endangerment investigations. Neither CCSD nor its police department owns, leases, or maintains any Flock camera itself -- the access is to cameras shared by other local agencies and businesses across the county's pooled network. KTNV (Channel 13) independently obtained the same memo and a CCSD spokesperson's on-the-record confirmation that newly appointed Police Chief Jeff Clark is reviewing all department procedures, including Flock use.

It is not established in public records how long the current agreement has been active. Emails obtained by The Nevada Independent show CCSD had been negotiating with Flock throughout 2025; a Flock representative and former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer contacted CCSD police in February 2025 to revive a prior agreement that had expired, and the deal was repeatedly pushed in those emails by Jason Elfberg, then the district's investigations bureau commander -- the same officer who, in a 2023 incident, was recorded pushing a Black student to the ground and kneeling on his back after the student filmed him detaining another student. Publicly released search-log data shows CCSD made roughly 70 Flock queries during 2025. Nevada has no state law regulating license-plate-reader use, leaving the scope of the district's access and its safeguards a matter of internal department policy adopted only after press scrutiny began. No other Nevada school district has been reported to have a comparable arrangement with Flock.

Athar Haseebullah, executive director of the ACLU of Nevada, raised concerns about the agreement, including the ability of school police officers to track students' vehicle locations off school property. "Having these school police officers be able to look up your kids' locations off site is dangerous," Haseebullah said.