Flock & ALPR Cameras in Capitola, California
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Capitola — 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 Capitola, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Capitola itself.
The rest sit in Pleasure Point (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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No new reports near Capitola in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Capitola
The readers mapped around Capitola break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- 38th Avenue — 1 reader
- Brommer Street — 1 reader
- Cliff Drive — 1 reader
- Nova Drive — 1 reader
- Capitola Road — 1 reader
- Monterey Avenue — 1 reader
- Park Avenue — 1 reader
- McGregor Drive — 1 reader
Capitola CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Capitola CA PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has logged 64 plate-database searches, has captured 253,924 vehicle records. Its network connects to 135 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: California Highway Patrol, City of Lemoore CA, San Benito County SO CA, Seaside CA PD, Watsonville CA PD.
Capitola in the Santa Cruz County picture
Santa Cruz County has 88 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #934 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 266,021 residents and 2,010 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching Capitola
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 Capitola — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Capitola (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Capitola
- Crowds flock to the Capitola Village for Capitola Art and Wine Festival’s 43rd year
- Capitola’s Flock Safety cameras contract renews
- Capitola police chief confirms state law violations amid Flock license plate reader fallout
- Capitola police chief says immigration officials’ access to its license plate reader database was a mistake
What you can do in Capitola
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 Capitola
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).