Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Nacimiento, California
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Nacimiento — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake Nacimiento, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lake Nacimiento itself.
The rest sit in Heritage Ranch (4).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 30 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 Nacimiento
The readers mapped around Lake Nacimiento break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Gateway Drive — 2 readers
- Jolon Road — 1 reader
- Heritage Loop Road — 1 reader
- Village Road — 1 reader
Lake Nacimiento in the San Luis Obispo County picture
San Luis Obispo County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #691 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 281,486 residents and 7,034 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 32.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Lake Nacimiento, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Lake Nacimiento. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Lake Nacimiento
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 Nacimiento — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Nacimiento (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lake Nacimiento
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 Nacimiento
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).