Flock & ALPR Cameras in El Rio, California
Volunteers have reported 39 automated license plate readers in and around El Rio — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 39 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of El Rio, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside El Rio itself.
The rest sit in Oxnard (23), Ventura (7), Camarillo (4).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (6), Private (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
5 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 El Rio in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in El Rio
The readers mapped around El Rio break down as 37 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Private. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Oxnard Boulevard — 7 readers
- Thames River Drive — 4 readers
- South Victoria Avenue — 3 readers
- Central Avenue — 2 readers
- Avenida de Aprisa — 2 readers
- West Esplanade Drive — 2 readers
- Ventura Freeway — 2 readers
- West Gonzales Road — 2 readers
- Citrus Grove Lane — 2 readers
- North Ventura Road — 2 readers
- Colt Street — 2 readers
- Montgomery Avenue — 1 reader
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around El Rio — all on the live map above.
El Rio in the Ventura County picture
Ventura County has 233 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,087 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 838,259 residents and 4,767 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 39 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (6), Private (1).
What’s watching El Rio
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 El Rio — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to El Rio (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around El Rio
- 2 new license plate readers reported around El Rio, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Del Rio, CA
What you can do in El Rio
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 El Rio
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).