Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bakersfield, California
Volunteers have reported 155 automated license plate readers in and around Bakersfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 12 new license plate readers just reported around Bakersfield, CA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Bakersfield
Where the cameras are in Bakersfield
The readers mapped around Bakersfield break down as 138 Flock Safety, 10 of unrecorded make, 4 Redflex Holdings. Named operators in the reports: City of Bakersfield. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- California Avenue — 13 readers
- Ming Avenue — 12 readers
- Valley Plaza — 12 readers
- Chester Avenue — 9 readers
- East California Avenue — 8 readers
- Stockdale Highway — 7 readers
- East Niles Street — 7 readers
- Mount Vernon Avenue — 6 readers
- Bernard Street — 6 readers
- Mall View Road — 5 readers
- Wilson Road — 4 readers
- Truxtun Avenue — 4 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Bakersfield — all on the live map above.
Bakersfield CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bakersfield CA PD runs 428 cameras of its own, has logged 1,443 plate-database searches, has captured 815,450 vehicle records. Its network connects to 372 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, 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.
Bakersfield in the Kern County picture
Kern County has 259 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,066 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 910,433 residents and 20,824 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 116 traffic, 1 entrance. Operators named on the record: City of Bakersfield (29).
Camera activity around Bakersfield, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Bakersfield. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Bakersfield
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 Bakersfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bakersfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bakersfield
- Automated license plate reader used to find Bakersfield robbery suspects in Palmdale
- Bakersfield police credit Flock cameras in arrests tied to alleged child sex crimes
- Bakersfield Police Say Flock Cameras Cracked Two Child Sex Crime Cases This Month
- Bakersfield Man Arrested in Alleged Kidnapping of 11-Year-Old Girl
What you can do in Bakersfield
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 Bakersfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).