Tell Me About This Particular Flock Camera

September 17, 2026

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On August 26, 2016, I filed a California Public Records Act request with the City of Visalia regarding this particular Flock camera. It’s located on Demaree Street, just south of Goshen Avenue, in Visalia. When I noticed it one day driving by, I had questions.

There are all kinds of requirements for things close to city streets, especially for those items in the public right-of-way. I decided to check to see if those requirements had been met for this installation. I wrote a very involved public records request about it, and got my reply today.

The response was underwhelming.

Either most of my request was ignored, or the City let this thing be put up with almost no oversight, and in violation of it’s own documents regarding the installation.

Here’s the complete response to my request. I’ll add the entire request at the end of this blog, as it’s quite extensive.

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Something I heard on the radio today

October 14, 2012

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Shaaron Claridge

I was listening to Visalia PD on the radio earlier today, when one of the dispatchers gave a return to an officer in the field, and it struck me as almost eerie.  She sounded very much like the dispatcher heard on the Adam-12 television series!

The interesting thing about the “voice actress” who voiced “Adam-12, Adam-12, see the woman…” and my favorite, “Adam-12, a 211 just occurred, Adam-12, handle code 3!” is she was a REAL police dispatcher, with the Van Nuys division of the Los Angeles Police Department!  She worked part time as a voice actor, and did the dispatch for several police shows through the years.  Can you imagine the double takes people would do, if they listened to early police scanners, or happened to be standing next to a LAPD police car, and heard that voice come across the speakers?  “Hey!  That’s the lady from Adam-12!”  Her husband was a motorcycle officer with LAPD, too.

I look at her dispatch console, a desk, really, and think…  wow!  How things have changed!

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