Clark County School District (CCSD) — the fifth-largest school district in the country — has an agreement with the controversial license plate reader company Flock Safety to access "all shared cameras within Clark County and the Las Vegas area," the school district confirmed to The Nevada Independent on Monday.

A procedural memo that took effect in the CCSD Police Department on Monday — the same day The Nevada Independent filed a public records request about the district's agreement with Flock — says the department has access to Flock cameras "maintained" by local agencies and businesses. The order clarifies that neither the district nor its police department have Flock cameras on any district properties or otherwise maintain any cameras.

The documents show an expansion of the rapidly growing network into schools, where they add a new level of complexity because of the interface with youth. Though there's been some publicity on Flock in schools, it's flown under the radar in Nevada. No other districts in the state have been reported to have such a collaboration.

The Indy is the first to report CCSD has an active agreement.

Flock — best known for its network of automated license plate readers — has faced increasing public scrutiny over privacy concerns and fears that the technology effectively allows for warrantless searches. The company deploys more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras nationwide and gives police access to a national database filled with identifying information about vehicles its cameras pick up. 

On its website, Flock touts that its cameras can help schools respond to active shooters and flag when the vehicle of a non-custodial parent enters campus. 

It's not clear how long the agreement has been in effect, but emails obtained via public records request revealed that CCSD was communicating with Flock throughout 2025 about purchasing the technology. In February 2025, a Flock representative who is also a former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officer contacted CCSD police, writing that the company wanted to assist the district's public safety initiatives after a prior MOU with the school district expired.

"We want to determine how to keep the conversation open," the representative said in an introductory email that February. 

Access to the software under the current agreement is limited. According to the new memo, only CCSD Police's Investigations Bureau can use Flock's software, and searches must be connected to an assigned case number. Investigators must also receive authorization from the bureau commander, and the system may be used for investigations involving felonies, firearms, narcotics and child endangerment.

Those approved reasons include establishing a pattern of conduct for a suspect and "attempt to locate/identify a suspect vehicle" the memo says. 

Athar Haseebullah, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, raised concerns about the agreement, such as the ability of school police officers to track student license plates. He noted that the CCSD police department has come under scrutiny before, such as in a 2023 incident where a school police officer pushed a Black student to the ground and kneeled on his back after he filmed the officer detaining another student.

That officer — Jason Elfberg — who was then the investigations bureau commander for the district — has repeatedly pushed for the Flock agreement in the emails The Indy obtained. 

"Having these school police officers be able to look up your kids' locations off site is dangerous," Haseebullah said. 

CCSD said in a statement Monday that the newly appointed CCSD police chief, Jeff Clark, is reviewing all district police department procedures, including Flock cameras. CCSD did not immediately respond to a follow-up question about what safety concerns the technology addressed.   

Flock in schools?

The communication between Flock and CCSD points to another potential direction the company is taking in its operations. 

Flock is well known for working with local police departments, including LVMPD, but its collaboration with school districts is lesser known. In February, The Guardian reported that Flock devices have been installed by more than 100 public school systems in the U.S., and that law enforcement agents have leveraged school-based cameras in states such as Texas for immigration-related investigations. 

Throughout 2025, the company repeatedly reached out to the school district advertising grant opportunities they could use to fund the technology. In April 2025, a representative reached out about a local anti-terrorism and emergency preparedness grant. That May, the same representative messaged about a DOJ grant to "improve security at schools and on school grounds through evidence-based school safety programs."

After one meeting, the representative sent over quotes for a "school safety package" that included two license plate readers and another motorized robotic camera. They also sent information about a Flock Mobile Security Trailer that included cameras and flashing lights — estimated to cost $25,000 annually, according to emails. The CCSD investigations bureau commander also separately sent quote information for 40 license plate readers and 20 cameras that could be added at sites of their choosing. 

"These cameras are tied into the systems used by all other agencies … which means we would have the ability to track suspects across all flock cameras within the valley," Elfberg said. 

The emails repeatedly allude to an old MOU between CCSD and Flock, which the district did not provide yet to The Indy. The Flock representative said that an existing MOU would cover access to Flock cameras at no additional cost. In another email, Elfberg said that they could have used Flock to help with a "CSHS arrest" but that they "lost access due to the timeframe." 

In 2025, school district police arrested the assistant principal at Canyon Springs High School (CSHS) for sexual misconduct with a student.

"We need to get this stuff up and running," the investigations bureau commander said in an email that February. 

Data from the website haveibeenflocked.com, which aggregates publicly released records of searches, demonstrates that CCSD made about 70 searches in 2025. The searches were categorized as investigations or associated with a case number.