Flock & ALPR Cameras in Barstow, California
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Barstow — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Barstow
The readers mapped around Barstow break down as 38 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Barstow Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Mountain View Street — 6 readers
- Armory Road — 5 readers
- East Main Street — 4 readers
- East Virginia Way — 3 readers
- South Barstow Road — 3 readers
- Yucca Avenue — 2 readers
- Montara Road — 2 readers
- Avenue A — 2 readers
- Muriel Drive — 2 readers
- Avenue H — 1 reader
- South Muriel Drive — 1 reader
- 1st Avenue — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Barstow — all on the live map above.
Barstow CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Barstow CA PD runs 70 cameras of its own, has logged 88 plate-database searches, has captured 368,644 vehicle records. Its network connects to 336 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.
Barstow 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 28 traffic. Operators named on the record: Barstow Police Department (10).
Camera activity around Barstow, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Barstow. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Barstow
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 — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Barstow (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Barstow
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Barstow, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Barstow, CA
What you can do in Barstow
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
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).