Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Wildwood, California
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Wildwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 27 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 10 Leonardo camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lake Wildwood
The readers mapped around Lake Wildwood break down as 4 of unrecorded make, 3 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Lake Wildwood Association, Nevada County Sheriff’s Office. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- CA 20 — 2 readers
- Wildflower Drive — 2 readers
- Lake Wildwood Drive — 2 readers
- O Brien Road — 2 readers
- Pleasant Valley Road — 1 reader
Lake Wildwood 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 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lake Wildwood Association (4), Nevada County Sheriff’s Office (1).
Camera activity around Lake Wildwood, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for Lake Wildwood. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Lake Wildwood
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 Wildwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Wildwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lake Wildwood
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Lake Wildwood, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Lake Wildwood, CA
What you can do in Lake Wildwood
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.
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Cameras near Lake Wildwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).