r/glendale • • 4h ago

News L.A. Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in 15 Defendants Charged, Including Six Medical Professionals, with $2 Billion in Losses Alleged

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Since healthcare fraud is a big topic of discussion, $2 billion is nothing to sneeze at...


r/glendale • • 1h ago

Help / Recommendation Asian markets nearby

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What are some good Asian markets nearby Glendale? I don't know of any actually in Glendale but if there are any nearby that are good, that would be great. I can always Google some but I want to go to some that have a good reputation and yelp is not always trustworthy from my experience. I remember HK market was the onoy one but sadly, I got into Asian cooking recently, long after it closed


r/glendale • • 3h ago

Discussion Glendale Housing Affordability and Homeownership Challenges

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Hello everyone. I am a student studying urban and regional planning and I am gathering information about Glendale’s housing and land use for an upcoming report. Glendale has a mix of single-family homes, apartments, commercial areas, and open space, but residents also face challenges such as high housing costs, limited housing availability, and difficulty finding homes that meet their needs.

As a Glendale resident or someone who has lived in the area, what has your experience with housing been like? Do you feel Glendale offers enough affordable and suitable housing options? What do you think the city could do to improve housing opportunities while preserving important neighborhoods and open spaces?

Please feel free to share your thoughts and experiences. I would greatly appreciate it!


r/glendale • • 1h ago

Crime & Safety GPD chief Robert William says the city has been using ALPR technology (such as Flock cameras) for 20 years...more from his presentation to city council below, as reported in Mike Mohill's latest email

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"I would say come back to us with a combination of answers to some of the questions we've raised, as well as some possible options for us to consider to strike a better balance in terms of controls over privacy, while at the same time maintaining as much as possible the benefits of the program for our law enforcement," Councilmember Dan Brotman said.

Glendale's 82 Flock cameras spread throughout the city generate 1.2 million license plate reads per month, William said. The city has also paid and permitted for 40 additional Flock cameras, which have not yet been deployed.

William provided a presentation to the council on the Glendale Police Department's use of the ALPR technology, addressing questions and qualms from the community and council, as well as explaining how California Senate Bill 34 governs the use and sharing of Flock data.

"When the government uses powerful technology, people should ask questions about privacy, access, and the potential of misuse; those are legitimate questions, and we have a responsibility to answer them, but those conversations also need to be grounded in facts," William said. "No technology or policy can make misuse impossible. What we can do is limit access, require a legitimate law enforcement purpose, use audits, and hold people accountable when those rules are violated."

The Flock technology does capture a still photo of the driver's rear license plate and vehicle when triggered by motion sensors, dates and timestamps each photograph, providing police with an extra tool for identifying a suspect’s vehicle. What it does not do, the chief said, is record video or audio, issue traffic tickets, measure a driver's speed, live monitoring or track a vehicle's movement.

"All this does is it gives us some sort of a lead to work off of to put a case together. We have a long list of success stories, but we've used this technology to solve homicides, we've used them for armed robberies, home break-ins, carjackings, shootings, fraud, other serious crimes. We've used it for less serious crimes," William said, adding that GPD has used Flock to identify vehicles doing doughnuts on Glenoaks Boulevard.

In the past six months, within the category of crimes including burglaries, robberies, grand theft auto, and carjacking, GPD has made 126 arrests, of which 83% were of individuals who don't live in Glendale, William said. About 14 of those arrests were "direct hits" from Flock.

Regarding who decides where the Flock cameras are located in Glendale, typically the Special Investigations Bureau lieutenant gathers input from detectives, investigators, and crime analysts, and delivers it to command staff where a final decision is made, William said.

"Some of the factors we take into consideration are locations and patterns of reported criminal activity, investigative needs and known crime trends, traffic patterns and roadways characteristics, areas where ALPR may provide significant investigative benefit and input from personnel and knowledge of ongoing investigations," he said.

Responding to the question of how many additional cameras there are in the city that are not operated by GPD but feed into the system, William said he does not know the exact number. He added that the Americana at Brand and Glendale Galleria own and use Flock cameras to manage parking.

Outside of those "two entities," William said there's other ALPR technology within the city's parking infrastructure.

William said a homeowners association purchased one of two Flock cameras in the College Hills neighborhood of Glendale. However, data from both cameras is only accessible by the GPD.

He added that GPD has received multiple requests from other homeowners associations requesting that the city or association itself purchase a Flock camera for the neighborhood.

"The association and the residents in that neighborhood felt that there was another point of access into the community. They requested for the city to put a second camera, which we didn't, and then they went ahead and purchased that second camera themselves."

According to SB 34 and GPD's department policy, William said the police department can only share its Flock data with other state and local law enforcement agencies, but not outside of California or with federal agencies. The bill also prohibits the use of Flock technology for reproductive health care and immigration enforcement.

He added that access to Glendale's Flock data by other state agencies may be "modified or revoked" at any time by GPD.

Partner agencies request to establish a data sharing relationship through Flock and the chief of police or a designee approves it. That agency is then listed on GPD's transparency portal, the chief said. Currently, he added, partner agencies may use the data for any official criminal investigation.

"There's no additional limitations on the category of investigations. I know that's been a topic of conversation, that, 'Can we modify that?' Yes, that is an ability that Flock is working on," he said.

To answer the question of what "irrevocably deleted" means, William said Flock data is transferred to Amazon Web Services GovCloud where it is stored for 30 days according to GPD's set retention rate, and then automatically deleted following that period.

"Once that deletion happens, the deletion does leave an auditable trace. So there is a mechanism to ensure that the data has been deleted," the chief said, adding that GPD has never seen Flock data become available beyond the 30-day retention period, when conducting a query to search data.

Beyond third-party audits, GPD conducts in-house audits every two weeks. So far, according to GPD's audits, the agency has not found any instances of misuse of Flock data within itself. William added that Flock also has its own auditing system to detect "abnormal activity."

If GPD does detect misuse of its Flock data within the agency, it conducts an internal affairs investigation to determine the proper course of action, which could lead to discipline including termination, and in some cases, criminal offense. If misuse is detected coming from a partner agency, William said, GPD can revoke access to its Flock network immediately, and would later refer the case to the Department of Justice.

"I want to emphasize that the customer data is scrubbed of all the metadata that's available. Meaning, the license plate information itself is not available, but just the characteristics of that vehicle and what the license plate looks like," William said.


r/glendale • • 22h ago

Culture & Arts Glendale man pleads guilty to stealing 30 United States Postal Service vehicles as part of a mail and identity theft scheme.

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r/glendale • • 14h ago

Discussion Anyone else's electricity bill an outrageous price?

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Hearing from other residents that their bills aren't the normal price as they typically are each month. I think my family's bill was 600 when it has never been that high before. What house hold items could be causing this. Maybe once a week I myself stay up late staying up til 2AM. Family insists that leaving the TV on from 10PM to 2AM is causing the bill to be this high. When I thought the TV doesn't cause that much electricity. I thought it was bigger appliances like the washer, dryer, AC, not leaving a TV on or even me being on the PC all day would cause it. But am I wrong?


r/glendale • • 3h ago

Help / Recommendation Camera Operators in Glendale and Glendale Community College Film Students

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Hi, I'm currently trying to film my own comedy web series and I basically have everything set to start filming, I just need a camera operator. That's my missing piece. If any film students from Glendale Community College are interested, or just any camera operators in the Glendale area too, I would love to hear from you. You don't need to have a ton of experience, in fact I'm pretty sure this will help you gain experience. As long as you have a camera and know how to use it, that's all I need.

If you're interested please email me at [elisaapollo2388@gmail.com](mailto:elisaapollo2388@gmail.com) or you could just comment/message me on here. Thank you :) (And my show is kind of a mix of Community and Parks and Rec. NOTE: This isn't a paid thing, so if you don't mind that, that would be great)


r/glendale • • 1d ago

Help / Recommendation What are the best things to do in downtown Glendale on a weeknight?

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I’d like to get out more in the evenings but don’t know the area well beyond the main shopping streets. Looking for anything that feels local, whether that’s food, live music, arts events, or a good place to sit with a book. What do you recommend, and are there places worth visiting only at certain times of the week?


r/glendale • • 1d ago

Community Missing Kitty

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Found this sweet baby in the garage of my apartment complex on Dryden & Central. She came to me pretty easily, and is extremely sweet! Is anyone missing a kitty?


r/glendale • • 20h ago

Jobs Burbank 24H Fitness Job Fair tomorrow 9am to 1pm

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r/glendale • • 2d ago

Help / Recommendation Armenian owned stores, restaurants, etc to visit in Glendale?

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My husband and I will be visiting LA for the first time in a couple weeks and I’m looking for some Armenian businesses to visit. I’m from an Armenian family myself, but from a small Midwest town with no Armenian population, stores, culture etc, so I’m really excited to spend one of our days in Glendale.

We plan on immersing ourselves in as much as possible. I’d love some suggestions for restaurants, stores (especially hand-crafted or unique items), museums/monuments, and maybe even a tattoo shop.

I’ve done some research, but since we won’t have a car on the trip, and being unfamiliar with the area, it’s difficult to plan out.

We might go to the neon museum (if it’s worth the trip), so bonus points for businesses walking distance-ish from this.

Thanks in advance, I appreciate any suggestions.


r/glendale • • 1d ago

Community looking for real friends

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hello i am 24 guy looking for couples as friends and maybe we go forward with more all with respect i know it's kinda weird but i am trying to set my mind here honestly


r/glendale • • 2d ago

Traffic 2 freeway

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What happened?! It’s taking me 30 mins to go a 1/4 mile


r/glendale • • 2d ago

Event Best entertainment you’ll find on this side of the Hollywood Hills!

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r/glendale • • 3d ago

Discussion Feeding wild animals-coyotes

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This recent attack reminded me of an older discussion on this sub. This is the predictable result of treating wild animals like pets.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1xa1y8y/coyote_euthanized_after_child_is_injured_during/

this is the old thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/glendale/comments/1wjzsac/how_a_group_chat_exploded_over_neighborhood/


r/glendale • • 3d ago

Help / Recommendation Power Outage when will it be back on?

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Our power is out it's 7:30AM. I live on the Glendale side by the 134 freeway and 5 freeway by the LA ZOO and Griffith Park. When did the power go out?


r/glendale • • 3d ago

Help / Recommendation Best structured swimming program for adult beginners in glendale?

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My wife and I want to learn to swim, but generic adult classes haven't worked for us before.

We are looking for a structured program with clear milestones, skill assessments, and measurable progress (for example, going from water confidence and floating to swimming independently over a few months).

Any recommendations for programs or private instructors who follow a structured curriculum rather than generic lessons? We are based in Los Angeles.

Would love to hear from adults who successfully learned to swim this way!


r/glendale • • 4d ago

Politics Signs

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Someone should tell Evelina and Beth to take their signs down. Dontcha think?


r/glendale • • 4d ago

Community LA Fitness Pilates

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Has anyone tried the Pilates classes at LA fitness on Brand? Just curious how they are before I give them a try there.


r/glendale • • 5d ago

Discussion What happening at the Glendale Galleria?

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Why is a huge line outside?


r/glendale • • 5d ago

Help / Recommendation Cost of electricity ridiculous!

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We have an empty condo for Sale tenant moved out. Only refrigerator and lights got this months bill $170! for empty 2 bedroom/2 bath 1200 square feet . I called Glendale Electric requesting an audit they just look at their screen on computer said it’s accurate. Anyone else regarding these high rates? TIA


r/glendale • • 4d ago

Discussion Data centers?

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Someone told me we’re getting 4 new data centers nearby. I can’t find anything about it.


r/glendale • • 5d ago

Discussion Spectrum out for everyone?

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Spectrum went out in the middle of the night and is still out here (Lincoln & Colorado). They say it’s due to high winds, but seems pretty calm outside. Anyone else that experienced this have theirs come back on yet or not go out at all in the area?


r/glendale • • 5d ago

Help / Recommendation Where can I locally sell a Dyson Airwrap 2026 Bluetooth full set.

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Where can I sell a brand new Dyson airwrap straight wavy hair, unopened. Paid $649.00 and now I need cash asap and have no clue where I can sell it locally for cash.


r/glendale • • 6d ago

Community anyone here live in montrose?

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hello, i am new here in montrose area was looking for some local people around