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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bystrom, California

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Bystrom — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bystrom, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Bystrom itself.

The rest sit in Ceres (3).

3 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (3). 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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Reported cameras nearby
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of 898 California cities tracked
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of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Bystrom, California
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Bystrom

No new reports near Bystrom in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 12:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Bystrom

The readers mapped around Bystrom break down as 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. Every report here dates to Aug 2025.

  • East Hatch Road — 3 readers

Bystrom in the Stanislaus County picture

Stanislaus County has 187 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #915 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 552,250 residents and 2,192 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 6% of counties nationally.

Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (3).

What’s watching Bystrom

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 Bystrom — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bystrom (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Bystrom

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.

Cameras near Bystrom

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).