Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gold River, California
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Gold River — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gold River, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Gold River itself.
The rest sit in Rancho Cordova (11).
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.
9 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 Gold River in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Gold River
The readers mapped around Gold River break down as 18 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Sunrise Boulevard — 5 readers
- Folsom Boulevard — 4 readers
- American River Bike Trail — 3 readers
- White Rock Road — 3 readers
- Coloma Road — 1 reader
- Douglas Road — 1 reader
- Nimbus Road — 1 reader
- Union Pacific Rail Trail — 1 reader
- Glass Beach Drive — 1 reader
Gold River 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 13 traffic, 1 police. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Gold River, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Gold River. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Gold River
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 Gold River — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gold River (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Gold River
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 Gold River
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).