Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cupertino, California
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Cupertino — 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 Cupertino, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Cupertino itself.
The rest sit in Saratoga (4), San Jose (3), Santa Clara (2), Sunnyvale (2), Los Altos (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Santa Clara Police Department (2), Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety (2), Los Altos Police Department (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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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cupertino
The readers mapped around Cupertino break down as 18 Flock Safety, 2 Axis Communications, 1 CoStar. Named operators in the reports: Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, Santa Clara Police Department, Los Altos Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Parkwood Drive — 3 readers
- Homestead Road — 2 readers
- South De Anza Boulevard — 2 readers
- West Valley Freeway — 2 readers
- Bollinger Road — 1 reader
- Westlynn Way — 1 reader
- Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road — 1 reader
- Parker Ranch Road — 1 reader
- Covina Court — 1 reader
- Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road — 1 reader
- South Wolfe Road — 1 reader
- Farr Ranch Road — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Cupertino — all on the live map above.
Cupertino in the Santa Clara County picture
Santa Clara County has 1,096 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #406 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19% nationally. That’s across 1,903,297 residents and 5,143 road miles. By road density that is 0.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic, 1 residential. Operators named on the record: Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety (2), Santa Clara Police Department (2), Los Altos Police Department (1).
What’s watching Cupertino
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 Cupertino — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cupertino (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cupertino
- Flock plate reader use ends in Saratoga and Cupertino
- Cupertino to install license plate reader cameras
What you can do in Cupertino
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 Cupertino
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).