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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Garden Acres, California

Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Garden Acres — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Garden Acres, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Garden Acres itself.

The rest sit in Stockton (3).

3 of them name an operator in the record: Stockton Police Department (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

6 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Live camera map 9 reported cameras around Garden Acres, 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 Garden Acres
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  • Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported

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

Where the cameras are in Garden Acres

The readers mapped around Garden Acres break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Stockton Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.

  • East Main Street — 5 readers
  • Cardinal Avenue — 2 readers

Garden Acres in the San Joaquin County picture

San Joaquin County has 292 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #819 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 787,416 residents and 3,259 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Stockton Police Department (3).

What’s watching Garden Acres

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

The latest around Garden Acres

What you can do in Garden Acres

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 Garden Acres

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