Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake of the Pines, California
Volunteers have reported 50 automated license plate readers in and around Lake of the Pines — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 7 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 22 new license plate readers just reported around Lake of the Pines, CA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #LakeofthePines
Where the cameras are in Lake of the Pines
The readers mapped around Lake of the Pines break down as 24 Uniview Technologies, 12 Uniview technologies, 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lake of the Pines Association, Lake Of The Pines Association, Nevada County Sheriff’s Office, Rincon Del Rio Young Enterprises LP, Nevada county Sheriffs office. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Lakeshore North — 12 readers
- Clubhouse Drive — 12 readers
- Combie Road — 2 readers
- Dog Bar Road — 2 readers
- CA 49 — 2 readers
- Lakeshore — 2 readers
- Cascade Crossing Road — 2 readers
- Torrey Pines Drive West — 2 readers
- Lakeshore South — 2 readers
- Torrey Pines Drive — 2 readers
- Riata Way — 2 readers
- Wolf Road — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Lake of the Pines — all on the live map above.
Lake of the Pines in the Nevada County picture
Nevada County has 85 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #170 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.9% nationally. That’s across 102,452 residents and 3,234 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 43 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lake of the Pines Association (24), Lake Of The Pines Association (12), Nevada County Sheriff’s Office (4).
Camera activity around Lake of the Pines, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lake of the Pines. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Lake of the Pines
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 of the Pines — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake of the Pines (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lake of the Pines
- 22 new license plate readers reported around Lake of the Pines, CA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Lake of the Pines, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lake of the Pines, CA
What you can do in Lake of the Pines
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 of the Pines
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).