Flock & ALPR Cameras in Barstow Heights, California
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Barstow Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Barstow Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Barstow Heights itself.
The rest sit in Barstow (18).
14 of them name an operator in the record: Barstow Police Department (13), The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Barstow Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Barstow Heights
The readers mapped around Barstow Heights break down as 18 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Barstow Police Department, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Lenwood Road — 7 readers
- Serrano — 3 readers
- Factory Merchants — 2 readers
- West Main Street — 2 readers
- Barstow — 1 reader
- High Point Parkway — 1 reader
- Tanger Way — 1 reader
- Avenue L — 1 reader
Barstow Heights in the San Bernardino County picture
San Bernardino County has 1,107 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #499 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.3% nationally. That’s across 2,187,816 residents and 25,783 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Barstow Police Department (13), The Home Depot (1).
What’s watching Barstow Heights
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 Barstow Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Barstow Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Barstow Heights
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 Barstow Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).