Flock & ALPR Cameras in La Quinta, California
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around La Quinta — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of La Quinta, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside La Quinta itself.
The rest sit in Indio (2), New Santa Rosa / Sew’ia (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near La Quinta in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in La Quinta
The readers mapped around La Quinta break down as 22 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Avenue 52 — 4 readers
- Washington Street — 4 readers
- Pines To Palms Highway — 2 readers
- Jefferson Street — 2 readers
- Eisenhower Drive — 2 readers
- Madison Street — 1 reader
- La Quinta — 1 reader
- Calle Sinaloa — 1 reader
- Calle Tampico — 1 reader
- Avenue 50 — 1 reader
- Avenue 49 — 1 reader
- Avenue 48 — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around La Quinta — all on the live map above.
La Quinta 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 5 traffic.
What’s watching La Quinta
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 La Quinta — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to La Quinta (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around La Quinta
- License plate readers deployed in La Quinta, sparking privacy concerns
- La Quinta will install 69 license-plate-reading cameras, hoping to catch criminals
What you can do in La Quinta
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 La Quinta
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).