A marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa) in the surf at Ormond Beach, Oxnard, California, October 2024 #oxnard #ormond #beach #ormondbeach #godwit # #Nikon #Z9 #bird #birds #birdwatching #birding #nature #photography #nikonphotgraphy 🪶

Todays #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LandMeetsWater, the alt is #TreePerchers

🚨Dangerously hot temperatures will continue all week. Coastal areas
will likely peak through Wednesday, with valley and mountain areas
peaking through Friday.

🥵Virtually all the record reporting sites in southwest #California
broke daily records today. #SantaMaria broke the daily record by a
whopping 12 degrees and also tied the monthly record for March.
#Oxnard and #Camarillo broke their daily record by 9 degrees!!

#CAwx #NWS #LOX #DangerousHeatWave

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=lox&issuedby=LOX&product=AFD

🚨 "...The audit revealed that even though OPD’s Flock Safety security settings had been set to “California only” access, a vendor-enabled “nationwide query” allowed agencies from outside of California, which also include federal agencies, to query OPD’s data without OPD's knowledge or approval... "

https://www.oxnard.gov/pd-news/news-release-oxnard-police-department-suspends-use-of-flock-safety-automated-license-plate-readers-02-27-26

#privacy #alpr #privacy #flock #oxnard #bigbrother #VenturaCounty

Oxnard Police Department Suspends Use of Flock Safety Automated License Plate Readers (02/27/26)

The Oxnard Police Department (OPD) has suspended its operation of Flock Safety’s (Flock) fixed-position Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR).
...

California law prohibits sharing of ALPR data with entities outside of California. This includes federal law enforcement agencies. Because of this, OPD’s “National Lookup” feature on the Flock system was turned off at the very beginning of its Flock ALPR deployment, which began in December of 2023.

...Earlier this year, some California agencies across the state discovered that due to a vendor-based issue, their Flock Safety National Lookup feature had inexplicably been turned on during a period of time in February through March of 2025. Flock Safety confirmed that a review of agency audit logs within the Flock platform revealed that during a period in 2025, some California law enforcement agencies’ camera networks became accessible to out-of-state law enforcement agencies. This meant that agencies outside of California, including federal ones, were able to include them in their queries. The issue affected multiple California law enforcement agencies, including within Ventura County.
...

https://www.oxnard.gov/pd-news/news-release-oxnard-police-department-suspends-use-of-flock-safety-automated-license-plate-readers-02-27-26

#alpr #privacy #Oxnard #VenturaCounty

Protests in the 805 this weekend, Sat Feb 14 from 11am-1pm. Pick an overpass and go.

#SimiValley #Moorpark #Westlake #ThousandOaks #Camarillo #Oxnard #Ventura #Carpenteria #SantaBarbara

#iceOut #NoKings #indivisible

New Home for Food Share: Larger facility near Wooley Road in Oxnard will help food bank meet growing demand | News

Food Share of Ventura County will have a future home on Oxnard’s Mariner Drive.…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #drewwest #facility #foodbank #fooddonations #foodinsecurity #FoodShare #monicawhite #nutrition #oxnard #warehouse
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2499904/new-home-for-food-share-larger-facility-near-wooley-road-in-oxnard-will-help-food-bank-meet-growing-demand-news/