Flock & ALPR Cameras in Indian Wells, California
Volunteers have reported 29 automated license plate readers in and around Indian Wells — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Indian Wells, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Indian Wells itself.
The rest sit in Palm Desert (16).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Indian Wells in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Indian Wells
The readers mapped around Indian Wells break down as 28 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Fred Waring Drive — 5 readers
- East Palm Canyon Drive — 2 readers
- Frank Sinatra Drive — 2 readers
- Country Club Drive — 2 readers
- Cook Street — 2 readers
- Club Drive — 2 readers
- Fairway Drive — 2 readers
- Cove Gate Road — 2 readers
- Elkhorn Trail — 1 reader
- El Dorado Drive — 1 reader
- Sheryl Avenue — 1 reader
- Merle Drive — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Indian Wells — all on the live map above.
Indian Wells in the Riverside County picture
Riverside County has 1,818 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #222 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.3% nationally. That’s across 2,449,909 residents and 12,509 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (2).
Camera activity around Indian Wells, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Indian Wells. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Indian Wells
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 Indian Wells — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Indian Wells (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Indian Wells
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Indian Wells, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Indian Wells, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Indian Wells, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Indian Wells, CA
What you can do in Indian Wells
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 Indian Wells
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).