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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Campbell, California

Volunteers have reported 54 automated license plate readers in and around Campbell — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 60 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Campbell, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside Campbell itself.

The rest sit in San Jose (36).

1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). 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
0.3%
of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 54 reported cameras around Campbell, 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 Campbell
+0 this week +4 last 30 days −2 removed
  • Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 16 Bosch camera newly reported
  • Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Campbell

The readers mapped around Campbell break down as 56 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Winchester Boulevard — 9 readers
  • Williams Road — 6 readers
  • Saratoga Avenue — 6 readers
  • East Campbell Avenue — 4 readers
  • Payne Avenue — 4 readers
  • Moorpark Avenue — 3 readers
  • East Hamilton Avenue — 3 readers
  • Hamilton Avenue — 3 readers
  • North San Tomas Aquino Road — 2 readers
  • South Bascom Avenue — 2 readers
  • Budd Avenue — 2 readers
  • Eden Avenue — 2 readers

+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Campbell — all on the live map above.

Campbell CA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Campbell CA PD runs 19 cameras of its own, has logged 354 plate-database searches, has captured 524,161 vehicle records. Its network connects to 332 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.

Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, 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.

Campbell in the Santa Clara County picture

Santa Clara County has 1,096 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #406 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19% nationally. That’s across 1,903,297 residents and 5,143 road miles. By road density that is 0.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 54 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).

Camera activity around Campbell, last 30 days

1 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Campbell. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.

What’s watching Campbell

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

The latest around Campbell

What you can do in Campbell

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 Campbell

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