Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lancaster, California
Volunteers have reported 108 automated license plate readers in and around Lancaster — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 108 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lancaster, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 103 of them sit inside Lancaster itself.
The rest sit in Palmdale (5).
18 of them name an operator in the record: Walmart (10), Lowe's (5), The Home Depot (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lancaster in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lancaster
The readers mapped around Lancaster break down as 58 Flock Safety, 26 Rekor Systems Inc, 8 AXIS. Named operators in the reports: Walmart, Lowe's, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- 10th Street West — 10 readers
- West Avenue K — 9 readers
- 20th Street West — 8 readers
- 20th Street East — 8 readers
- West Avenue J — 8 readers
- Sierra Highway — 7 readers
- East Avenue J — 7 readers
- Valley Central Way — 6 readers
- East Avenue K — 6 readers
- West Lancaster Boulevard — 5 readers
- Challenger Way — 4 readers
- 17th Street East — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Lancaster — all on the live map above.
Lancaster CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lancaster CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 123 other agencies.
Lancaster in the Los Angeles County picture
Los Angeles County has 2,677 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,106 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 9,848,406 residents and 18,753 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Walmart (10), Lowe's (5), The Home Depot (3).
Camera activity around Lancaster, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lancaster. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Lancaster
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 Lancaster — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lancaster (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lancaster
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Lancaster, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Lancaster, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Lancaster, CA
What you can do in Lancaster
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 Lancaster
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).