Flock & ALPR Cameras in Los Gatos, California
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Los Gatos — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Los Gatos
The readers mapped around Los Gatos break down as 12 Flock Safety, 5 Verkada Inc, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Los Gatos/Monte Sereno Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Los Gatos-Saratoga Road — 5 readers
- Longmeadow Drive — 2 readers
- Olde Drive — 1 reader
- Bruce Avenue — 1 reader
- Andrews Street — 1 reader
- Stonybrook Road — 1 reader
- South Santa Cruz Avenue — 1 reader
- Hilow Road — 1 reader
- Los Gatos — 1 reader
- Winchester Boulevard — 1 reader
- Station Way — 1 reader
- University Avenue — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Los Gatos — all on the live map above.
Los Gatos CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Los Gatos CA PD runs 37 cameras of its own, has logged 270 plate-database searches, has captured 485,212 vehicle records. Its network connects to 15 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Campbell CA PD, Foothill-DeAnza CA PD, Gilroy CA PD, Los Alto Hills CA PD, Los Altos CA PD, Milpitas CA PD, Morgan Hill CA PD, Palo Alto CA PD.
Los Gatos in the Santa Clara County picture
Santa Clara County has 1,096 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #406 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19% nationally. That’s across 1,903,297 residents and 5,143 road miles. By road density that is 0.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic, 1 residential. Operators named on the record: Los Gatos/Monte Sereno Police Department (4).
What’s watching Los Gatos
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 Gatos — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Los Gatos (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Los Gatos
- Los Gatos should keep its ALPR cameras
- Los Gatos, Saratoga: Potential policing partnership draws criticism from residents
- Los Gatos approves police department's ongoing use of military weapons – Silicon Valley
- Los Gatos approves police department's ongoing use of military weapons – The Mercury News
What you can do in Los Gatos
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 Gatos
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).