Flock & ALPR Cameras in Colton, California
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Colton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Colton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Colton itself.
The rest sit in San Bernardino (3).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (10). 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 9 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 Colton
The readers mapped around Colton break down as 24 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Valley Boulevard — 4 readers
- North Pepper Avenue — 3 readers
- Mill Street — 3 readers
- East Valley Boulevard — 2 readers
- North Mount Vernon Avenue — 2 readers
- North Rancho Avenue — 1 reader
- Fairway Drive — 1 reader
- South Hunts Lane — 1 reader
- South Mount Vernon Avenue — 1 reader
- Sperry Drive — 1 reader
- North 9th Street — 1 reader
- West C Street — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Colton — all on the live map above.
Colton CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Colton CA PD runs 44 cameras of its own, has logged 326 plate-database searches, has captured 767,473 vehicle records. Its network connects to 336 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.
Colton in the San Bernardino County picture
San Bernardino County has 1,107 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #499 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.3% nationally. That’s across 2,187,816 residents and 25,783 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (10).
Camera activity around Colton, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Colton. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Colton
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 Colton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Colton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Colton
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Colton, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Colton, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Colton, CA
What you can do in Colton
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 Colton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).