Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mentone, California
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Mentone — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mentone, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Mentone itself.
The rest sit in Redlands (14), Yucaipa (13), Highland (3).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Redlands Police Department (8), San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mentone
The readers mapped around Mentone break down as 22 Flock Safety, 6 Motorola Solutions, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Redlands Police Department, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Yucaipa Boulevard — 9 readers
- Sand Canyon Road — 3 readers
- Greenspot Road — 3 readers
- Wabash Avenue — 2 readers
- Campus Drive — 2 readers
- East Lugonia Avenue — 2 readers
- Reservoir Road — 1 reader
- Marion Road — 1 reader
- Independence Avenue — 1 reader
- East Highland Avenue — 1 reader
- East San Bernardino Avenue — 1 reader
- East Colton Avenue — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Mentone — all on the live map above.
Mentone in the San Bernardino County picture
San Bernardino County has 1,107 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #499 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.3% nationally. That’s across 2,187,816 residents and 25,783 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 32 traffic. Operators named on the record: Redlands Police Department (8), San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (2).
Camera activity around Mentone, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Mentone. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Mentone
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 Mentone — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mentone (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mentone
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Mentone, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mentone, CA
What you can do in Mentone
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 Mentone
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).