Flock & ALPR Cameras in Citrus Heights, California
Volunteers have reported 50 automated license plate readers in and around Citrus Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 50 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Citrus Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 42 of them sit inside Citrus Heights itself.
The rest sit in Roseville (8).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Kaiser Permanente (5), Lowe's (4), 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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- Sep 19 Flock Safety 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 Citrus Heights
The readers mapped around Citrus Heights break down as 45 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Kaiser Permanente, Lowe's, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Greenback Lane — 12 readers
- Sunrise Boulevard — 5 readers
- Auburn Boulevard — 3 readers
- Old Auburn Road — 3 readers
- Citrus Heights — 3 readers
- Riverside Avenue — 3 readers
- Cirby Way — 3 readers
- Sayonara Drive — 2 readers
- Antelope Road — 2 readers
- Fair Oaks Boulevard — 2 readers
- Mariposa Avenue — 2 readers
- Oak Avenue — 2 readers
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Citrus Heights — all on the live map above.
Citrus Heights CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Citrus Heights CA PD runs 142 cameras of its own, has logged 497 plate-database searches, has captured 825,614 vehicle records. Its network connects to 376 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.
Citrus Heights in the Sacramento County picture
Sacramento County has 614 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #763 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,584,047 residents and 4,199 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Kaiser Permanente (5), Lowe's (4), Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Citrus Heights, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Citrus Heights. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Citrus Heights
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 Citrus Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Citrus Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Citrus Heights
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Citrus Heights, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Citrus Heights, CA
What you can do in Citrus Heights
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 Citrus Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).