Flock & ALPR Cameras in Auburn, California
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Auburn — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 26 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Auburn
The readers mapped around Auburn break down as 7 Flock Safety, 5 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Auburn Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Lincoln Way — 3 readers
- Elm Avenue — 2 readers
- Nevada Street — 2 readers
- Auburn Folsom Road — 2 readers
- High Street — 2 readers
- Maple Street — 1 reader
- Miles Court — 1 reader
Auburn CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Auburn CA PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 60 plate-database searches, has captured 175,694 vehicle records. Its network connects to 330 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD.
Auburn in the Placer County picture
Placer County has 232 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #422 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.7% nationally. That’s across 412,435 residents and 4,095 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Auburn Police Department (5).
Camera activity around Auburn, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Auburn. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Auburn
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 Auburn — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Auburn (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Auburn
- Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal
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- New chapter on the network: DeFlock Auburn CA (Auburn, California)
What you can do in Auburn
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 Auburn
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).