Flock & ALPR Cameras in Calimesa, California
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Calimesa — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Calimesa, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Calimesa itself.
The rest sit in Yucaipa (5), Beaumont (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (2). 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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- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Calimesa
The readers mapped around Calimesa break down as 16 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West County Line Road — 3 readers
- Oak Glen Road — 2 readers
- Yucaipa Boulevard — 2 readers
- San Timoteo Canyon Road — 2 readers
- Calimesa — 2 readers
- Cherry Valley Boulevard — 2 readers
- Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway — 2 readers
- Calimesa Boulevard — 1 reader
- Sandalwood Drive — 1 reader
- Singleton Road — 1 reader
- 5th Street — 1 reader
- Desert Lawn Drive — 1 reader
Calimesa in the Riverside County picture
Riverside County has 1,818 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #222 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.3% nationally. That’s across 2,449,909 residents and 12,509 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
Camera activity around Calimesa, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Calimesa. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Calimesa
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 Calimesa — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Calimesa (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Calimesa
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Calimesa, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Calimesa, CA
- Yucaipa green lights another phase in license plate reader program
What you can do in Calimesa
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 Calimesa
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).