Flock & ALPR Cameras in Desert Hot Springs, California
Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around Desert Hot Springs — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 31 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Desert Hot Springs, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 27 of them sit inside Desert Hot Springs itself.
The rest sit in Palm Springs (1).
3 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 Desert Hot Springs in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:35 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Desert Hot Springs
The readers mapped around Desert Hot Springs break down as 31 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Pierson Boulevard — 5 readers
- Palm Drive — 5 readers
- Dillon Road — 3 readers
- Little Morongo Road — 3 readers
- Hacienda Avenue — 2 readers
- Two Bunch Palms Trail — 2 readers
- Augusta Avenue — 2 readers
- Cactus Drive — 1 reader
- Painted Hills Road — 1 reader
- West Drive — 1 reader
- Spyglass Avenue — 1 reader
- Clubhouse Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Desert Hot Springs — all on the live map above.
Desert Hot Springs CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Desert Hot Springs CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 134 other agencies.
Desert Hot Springs in the Riverside County picture
Riverside County has 1,818 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #222 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.3% nationally. That’s across 2,449,909 residents and 12,509 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic.
Camera activity around Desert Hot Springs, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Desert Hot Springs. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Desert Hot Springs
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 Desert Hot Springs — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Desert Hot Springs (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Desert Hot Springs
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Desert Hot Springs, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Desert Hot Springs, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Desert Hot Springs, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Desert Hot Springs, CA
What you can do in Desert Hot Springs
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 Desert Hot Springs
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).