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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elk Grove, California

Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Elk Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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38
Reported cameras nearby
#172
of 898 California cities tracked
0.2%
of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 38 reported cameras around Elk Grove, California
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Elk Grove
+0 this week +1 last 30 days
  • Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Elk Grove

The readers mapped around Elk Grove break down as 38 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Elk Grove Boulevard — 5 readers
  • Bond Road — 4 readers
  • Waterman Road — 3 readers
  • Promenade Parkway — 3 readers
  • Kammerer Road — 3 readers
  • East Stockton Boulevard — 3 readers
  • West Stockton Boulevard — 3 readers
  • Elk Grove Florin Road — 2 readers
  • Grant Line Road — 2 readers
  • Auto Passage Drive — 2 readers
  • Bradshaw Road — 1 reader
  • Elk Grove — 1 reader

+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Elk Grove — all on the live map above.

Elk Grove CA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Elk Grove CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 132 other agencies.

Elk Grove in the Sacramento County picture

Sacramento County has 614 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #763 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,584,047 residents and 4,199 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 37 traffic.

Camera activity around Elk Grove, last 30 days

6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Elk Grove. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.

What’s watching Elk Grove

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 Elk Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elk Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Elk Grove

What you can do in Elk Grove

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.

Cameras near Elk Grove

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).