Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cathedral City, California
Volunteers have reported 85 automated license plate readers in and around Cathedral City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 85 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cathedral City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 34 of them sit inside Cathedral City itself.
The rest sit in Rancho Mirage (35), Palm Springs (16).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (6). 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 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cathedral City
The readers mapped around Cathedral City break down as 82 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Palm Canyon Drive — 9 readers
- Dinah Shore Drive — 8 readers
- Ramon Road — 7 readers
- Date Palm Drive — 6 readers
- East Ramon Road — 6 readers
- Gerald Ford Drive — 5 readers
- Frank Sinatra Drive — 5 readers
- San Luis Rey Drive — 5 readers
- Plumley Road — 2 readers
- Da Vall Drive — 2 readers
- Cherokee Way — 2 readers
- Avenida Maravilla — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Cathedral City — all on the live map above.
Cathedral City CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cathedral City CA PD runs 35 cameras of its own, has logged 139 plate-database searches, has captured 465,710 vehicle records. Its network connects to 337 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.
Cathedral City 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 72 traffic. Operators named on the record: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (6).
Camera activity around Cathedral City, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cathedral City. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Cathedral City
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 Cathedral City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cathedral City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cathedral City
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Cathedral City, CA
- License plate cameras take center stage at Cathedral City council meeting tonight
- Cathedral City e Indio hablarán sobre el uso de cámaras Flock para leer placas
- Cathedral City and Indio councils to discuss automated license plate readers
What you can do in Cathedral City
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 Cathedral City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).