Flock & ALPR Cameras in Davis, California
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Davis — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 14 new license plate readers just reported around Davis, CA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Davis
Where the cameras are in Davis
The readers mapped around Davis break down as 21 Motorola Solutions, 12 Flock Safety, 8 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Kaiser Permanente. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Mace Boulevard — 6 readers
- Cowell Boulevard — 4 readers
- Olive Drive — 4 readers
- Russell Boulevard — 4 readers
- Drew Avenue — 3 readers
- 2nd Street — 3 readers
- Hilgard Lane — 2 readers
- Orchard Road — 2 readers
- Hutchison Drive — 2 readers
- Chiles Road — 2 readers
- North El Macero Drive — 1 reader
- Galileo Court — 1 reader
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around Davis — all on the live map above.
Davis in the Yolo County picture
Yolo County has 121 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #432 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.2% nationally. That’s across 217,782 residents and 1,479 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic, 6 parking, 3 gate. Operators named on the record: Kaiser Permanente (8).
What’s watching Davis
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 Davis — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Davis (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Davis
- California Bill Seeks to Curb ALPR Surveillance, Citing Civil Liberties Risks
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Davis, CA
- 14 new license plate readers reported around Davis, CA
- University of California, Davis: Facial Recognition, Cameras, Other Tools Police Use Raise Questions About Accountability
What you can do in Davis
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 Davis
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).