Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fontana, California
Volunteers have reported 148 automated license plate readers in and around Fontana — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 148 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fontana, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 144 of them sit inside Fontana itself.
The rest sit in Rialto (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 Genetec camera newly reported
- 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 Fontana
The readers mapped around Fontana break down as 87 Flock Safety, 39 Motorola Solutions, 21 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Foothill Boulevard — 19 readers
- Sierra Lakes Parkway — 17 readers
- Sierra Avenue — 15 readers
- Citrus Avenue — 11 readers
- Baseline Avenue — 11 readers
- Cherry Avenue — 9 readers
- Valley Boulevard — 7 readers
- Alder Avenue — 6 readers
- Beech Avenue — 5 readers
- Summit Avenue — 4 readers
- South Heritage Circle — 4 readers
- Market Place — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Fontana — all on the live map above.
Fontana CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fontana CA PD runs 50 cameras of its own, has logged 1,395 plate-database searches, has captured 828,450 vehicle records. Its network connects to 327 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD, Arcadia CA PD, Atwater CA PD.
Fontana in the San Bernardino County picture
San Bernardino County has 1,107 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #499 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.3% nationally. That’s across 2,187,816 residents and 25,783 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 87 traffic, 11 public. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Fontana, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fontana. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Fontana
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 Fontana — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fontana (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fontana
What you can do in Fontana
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 Fontana
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).