Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cotati, California
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Cotati — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cotati, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Cotati itself.
The rest sit in Rohnert Park (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Cotati in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:15 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cotati
The readers mapped around Cotati break down as 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- Helman Lane — 2 readers
- Stony Point Road — 2 readers
- Gravenstein Highway — 2 readers
- Old Redwood Highway — 2 readers
- Redwood Drive — 1 reader
- Adrian Drive — 1 reader
- East Cotati Avenue — 1 reader
Cotati CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cotati CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 126 other agencies.
Cotati in the Sonoma County picture
Sonoma County has 326 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #281 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.1% nationally. That’s across 485,642 residents and 4,667 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic, 3 parking. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3).
What’s watching Cotati
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 Cotati — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cotati (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cotati
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 Cotati
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).