Flock & ALPR Cameras in Blue Lake, California
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Blue Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Blue Lake
The readers mapped around Blue Lake break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Chartin Road — 2 readers
- Rancheria Road — 2 readers
- Blue Lake Boulevard — 1 reader
Blue Lake in the Humboldt County picture
Humboldt County has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,784 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 135,418 residents and 7,083 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 81.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Blue Lake, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Blue Lake. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Blue Lake
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 Blue Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Blue Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Blue Lake
What you can do in Blue Lake
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 Blue Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).