Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bodega Bay, California
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Bodega Bay — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bodega Bay, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Bodega Bay itself.
The rest sit in Bodega (2), Carmet (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Bodega Bay in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bodega Bay
The readers mapped around Bodega Bay break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Bay Highway — 3 readers
- Coast Highway — 2 readers
- North Harbour Way — 2 readers
- Harbour Way — 1 reader
Bodega Bay in the Sonoma County picture
Sonoma County has 326 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #281 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.1% nationally. That’s across 485,642 residents and 4,667 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Bodega Bay, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bodega Bay. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Bodega Bay
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 Bodega Bay — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bodega Bay (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bodega Bay
What you can do in Bodega Bay
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 Bodega Bay
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).