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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cottonwood, California

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Cottonwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Cottonwood, California

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Cottonwood

No new reports near Cottonwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 21, 07:09 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Cottonwood

The readers mapped around Cottonwood break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Feb 2026.

Balls Ferry Road — 1 reader
Gas Point Road — 1 reader
4th Street — 1 reader

Cottonwood in the Shasta County picture

Shasta County has 71 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #755 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 181,554 residents and 6,962 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.

What’s watching Cottonwood

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 Cottonwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cottonwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Cottonwood

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 Cottonwood

Anderson (17) Palo Cedro (2) Red Bluff (5) Redding (53)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).