Flock Cameras in California
What Alto can actually source for California: community-reported locations, documents, statute, and coverage. Every row below is either sourced or explicitly empty.
Ask Gab AI about Flock cameras in CaliforniaCommunity-reported OpenStreetMap data · not an official Flock map · no plate lookupDetailsHide
Alto is not affiliated with Flock Safety. Location pins come from © OpenStreetMap contributors. Community tagging of ALPR devices is documented by projects such as DeFlock. Pins are reported locations, not proof a camera is on or that a city has a current contract. There is no official public map. Alto does not search license plates. Vendor claims belong to flocksafety.com. Wrong figures: corrections.
All ALPR OSM nodes
20,248 reported locations
OpenStreetMap · as of 2026-08-24
Includes Flock and other vendors tagged on OpenStreetMap.
Flock-tagged per 100,000 residents
41.2 per 100k
U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 estimates (NST-EST2025) · as of 2025-07-01
Population is the Census July 1, 2025 estimate. The camera count is OpenStreetMap, not Census.
Reported locations around California
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- Flock Safety
- Other ALPR
Evidence Alto has for California
Six independent signals. An empty row is a real answer, not a loading state.
5 of 6 sourced
Reported locations
16,218
OpenStreetMap nodes in California tagged as plate readers and attributed to Flock Safety. 20,248 ALPR nodes of any vendor were tagged in the same import.
OpenStreetMap · as of 2026-08-24
See on the mapAgencies named in the EFF Atlas
322
Rows the Electronic Frontier Foundation recorded for California. A row naming "ALPR" is not upgraded to "Flock" unless the row says Flock.
Atlas of Surveillance (EFF) · as of 2026-08-24
EFF AtlasPublic contracts on file
1
Agreements a person read and transcribed from a posted document. Dollar figures and camera counts appear only where the document prints them.
Transparency portals
none on file
No California agency portal has been verified. Alto does not guess portal URLs, so an empty row here is the accurate state of the allowlist.
State ALPR statute
Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.90.51
A plate-reader-specific statute Alto has read and cited. Summarised below.
State legislature · as of 2026-08-23
Read the statuteIndexed coverage
12
Headlines from Alto's own index matching Flock or plate readers plus California.
What California law says
California requires an ALPR operator to keep reasonable security practices and to publish a usage and privacy policy covering authorized purposes, access, sharing, and retention. This is an operator-policy statute, not a statewide camera ban.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.90.51 · reviewed 2026-08-23 · Read the statute
Cities in California
A city gets its own page once Alto holds at least two independent signals for it — reported pins, an Atlas row, a verified portal, a contract, or sustained local coverage.
Latest California coverage
- DHS Identifies Murderer Who Killed California Woman As Indian Illegal Alien Released Under BidenRedStateabout 15 hours ago
- What Firefighters’ $1,000 Tip Reveals about Mercy After LossChristian Headlinesabout 17 hours ago
- California woman charged with murder after allegedly killing husband with flagpoleThe Guardian — Worldabout 17 hours ago
- ICE Hits Legal Wall On Two Fronts As Denver Targets Polling-Place Enforcement And Appeals Court Curbs Detention PowerZeroHedgeabout 17 hours ago
- Illegal Alien Released by Biden Admin Arrested After Allegedly Executing California Woman in PublicThe Western Journalabout 17 hours ago
- Coastal erosion forces cancellation of California music festival - YahooGoogle Newsabout 18 hours ago
Nearby states
This page reports OpenStreetMap ALPR nodes in California that are tagged as Flock Safety, next to any Atlas of Surveillance rows, public contracts, and news Alto has indexed. Absence of a pin is not proof the state has no cameras.
Every count is labeled with its source and import or document date. Alto does not treat community pins as an active contract.
Does California use Flock?
Alto answers with the numbers on this page — reported OSM Flock tags, EFF Atlas rows if imported, and documents in the contract table — not with a yes/no slogan. Press-reported national totals are not applied to California unless a source is about this state.
How to read the table
The Flock column is OSM nodes whose manufacturer or brand is Flock Safety. The all-ALPR column includes other vendors tagged on OpenStreetMap. They are not the same number.
Flock Cameras in California — Frequently Asked Questions
- Does California use Flock cameras?
- Alto does not answer that with a slogan. This page shows reported OpenStreetMap Flock-tagged locations in California, plus any Atlas rows, contracts, and news we have sourced. A zero in the OSM column means no tagged nodes in the last import — not that no cameras exist.
- Where are Flock cameras in California?
- Reported coordinates, when imported, appear on the Flock map filtered to California. They come from OpenStreetMap contributors and can be incomplete or out of date.
- Does a pin mean the camera is on and the city has a contract?
- No. A pin is a community-reported location. The camera may have been moved or removed. A contract is a separate public record. Alto does not treat a pin as proof that a device is recording or that a jurisdiction currently pays Flock.