Flock & ALPR Cameras in Coachella, California
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Coachella — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Coachella is on the record here. Coachella rejects license plate readers over privacy issues, concerns with Chad Bianco
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Coachella, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Coachella itself.
The rest sit in Indio (2).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Coachella
The readers mapped around Coachella break down as 5 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Dillon Road — 3 readers
- Avenue 52 — 2 readers
- Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway — 2 readers
- Avenue 48 — 1 reader
- Harrison Place — 1 reader
- Jackson Street — 1 reader
Coachella 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 9 traffic.
Camera activity around Coachella, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Coachella. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Coachella
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 Coachella — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Coachella (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Coachella
- Flock Cameras Raise Privacy Questions Across Coachella Valley
- Coachella Valley residents remain vocal about Flock Cameras
- 700 Flock cameras watch Coachella Valley drivers, fuel privacy debate
- Hundreds of Flock cameras being used to record motorists throughout the Coachella Valley
What you can do in Coachella
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 Coachella
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).