Organization
Reduce loss. Improve evidence. Strengthen coordination.
We focus on operational controls that make theft harder, make loss visible faster, and make reporting more actionable for investigators and partners.
A credible, operator-first security initiative.
Citrus Security Alliance exists to treat lemon theft as an economic risk and a preventable agricultural crime. Our work centers on the realities of orchard operations, harvest cycles, and supply chain handoffs.
We prioritize clarity: measurable controls, documentation standards, and coordination patterns that work under real throughput and staffing constraints.
2026 priorities
Strategic priorities
- Standardize incident reporting fields and evidence checklists
- Promote chain-of-custody discipline for pickups and receiving
- Improve surveillance retention, time sync, and export workflows
- Expand practical harvest-time reconciliation templates
- Support ethical community watch coordination and alerting
- Advocate for rural security funding and investigative capacity
Operational objectives
Education
Publish actionable guidance for perimeter hardening, harvest oversight, and facility controls that operators can implement within a season.
Reporting
Improve the consistency and completeness of incident documentation so that patterns can be identified earlier and acted on faster.
Prevention
Promote layered controls that reduce ambiguity at the points where loss commonly occurs: staging, loading, and handoffs.
Advocacy
Support policy proposals that increase rural investigative capacity and enable cooperative reporting initiatives across regions.