Flock & ALPR Cameras in Anderson, California
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Anderson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Anderson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Anderson itself.
The rest sit in Palo Cedro (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Anderson PD (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
6 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Anderson in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Anderson
The readers mapped around Anderson break down as 18 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Anderson PD. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Deschutes Road — 3 readers
- Rhonda Road — 2 readers
- Happy Valley Road — 2 readers
- Olinda Road — 2 readers
- Ox Yoke Road — 1 reader
- Dodson Lane — 1 reader
- Rupert Road — 1 reader
- Balls Ferry Road — 1 reader
- Pleasant Hills Drive — 1 reader
- Automall Drive — 1 reader
- McMurry Drive — 1 reader
- Airport Road — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Anderson — all on the live map above.
Anderson CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Anderson CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 139 other agencies.
Anderson in the Shasta County picture
Shasta County has 71 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #755 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 181,554 residents and 6,962 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Anderson PD (1).
Camera activity around Anderson, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Anderson. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Anderson
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Anderson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Anderson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Anderson
What you can do in Anderson
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Anderson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).