Flock & ALPR Cameras in Imperial, California
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Imperial — 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 Imperial, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Imperial itself.
The rest sit in Brawley (2).
8 of them name an operator in the record: Imperial County Sheriff Department (3), Imperial Police Department (3), Imperial Valley College (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 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 Imperial in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Imperial
The readers mapped around Imperial break down as 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Imperial Police Department, Imperial County Sheriff Department, Imperial Valley College. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Imperial Avenue — 2 readers
- Imperial County — 2 readers
- Dogwood Road — 2 readers
- West Aten Road — 1 reader
- Forrester Road — 1 reader
- Clark Road — 1 reader
Imperial in the Imperial County picture
Imperial County has 116 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #324 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 15.1% nationally. That’s across 179,319 residents and 4,418 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 23.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Imperial Police Department (3), Imperial County Sheriff Department (3), Imperial Valley College (2).
Camera activity around Imperial, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Imperial. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Imperial
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 Imperial — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Imperial (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Imperial
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Imperial Beach, CA
- Automated license plate readers and public surveillance cameras are coming to Imperial Beach
- Calexico to install license plate reader cameras
What you can do in Imperial
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 Imperial
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).