Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Sonora, California
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around East Sonora — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Sonora, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside East Sonora itself.
The rest sit in Sonora (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in East Sonora
The readers mapped around East Sonora break down as 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Old Wards Ferry Road — 2 readers
- Fir Drive — 1 reader
East Sonora in the Tuolumne County picture
Tuolumne County has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,059 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 54,873 residents and 3,528 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 96% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around East Sonora, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for East Sonora. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching East Sonora
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 East Sonora — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Sonora (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in East Sonora
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.
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Cameras near East Sonora
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).