Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Elsinore, California
Volunteers have reported 51 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Elsinore — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 51 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake Elsinore, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 47 of them sit inside Lake Elsinore itself.
The rest sit in Temescal Valley (1).
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lake Elsinore
The readers mapped around Lake Elsinore break down as 50 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Collier Avenue — 6 readers
- Central Avenue — 4 readers
- Alberhill Ranch Road — 4 readers
- Riverside Drive — 3 readers
- Lake Street — 3 readers
- Cambern Avenue — 2 readers
- Dexter Avenue — 2 readers
- Lakeshore Drive — 2 readers
- Pioneer Lane — 2 readers
- Nichols Road — 2 readers
- Tereticornis Avenue — 2 readers
- Camino del Norte — 2 readers
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Lake Elsinore — all on the live map above.
Lake Elsinore 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 42 traffic.
Camera activity around Lake Elsinore, last 30 days
10 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lake Elsinore. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Lake Elsinore
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 Lake Elsinore — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Elsinore (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lake Elsinore
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lake Elsinore, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lake Elsinore, CA
- 7 new license plate readers reported around Lake Elsinore, CA
- Lake Elsinore Approves More Flock Surveillance Cameras Across The City
What you can do in Lake Elsinore
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 Lake Elsinore
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).