Flock & ALPR Cameras in Los Banos, California
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Los Banos — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Los Banos in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Los Banos
The readers mapped around Los Banos break down as 11 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Pacheco Boulevard — 5 readers
- Place Road — 2 readers
- Santa Nella Road — 2 readers
- Overland Avenue — 1 reader
- Merced County — 1 reader
- Mercey Springs Road - Hwy 165 — 1 reader
- South Mercey Springs Road — 1 reader
- West Pacheco Boulevard — 1 reader
Los Banos in the Merced County picture
Merced County has 52 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,451 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 285,597 residents and 3,702 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 36.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Los Banos, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Los Banos. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Los Banos
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 Los Banos — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Los Banos (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Los Banos
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Los Banos, CA
- Los Banos police to install license plate readers in city. Here’s how they work
- Merced County Flock Camera Contract Extended Through 2030
- Merced Residents Named in Lawsuit Against Motorola Solutions Over License Plate Reader Data Sharing
What you can do in Los Banos
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 Los Banos
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).