Flock & ALPR Cameras in Merced, California
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Merced — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 4 Verkada Inc. camera newly reported
- Oct 4 Verkada Inc. camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Merced
The readers mapped around Merced break down as 14 Motorola Solutions, 6 Flock Safety, 4 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: UC Merced Police Department, Merced Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Oakland Avenue — 3 readers
- Lake Road — 3 readers
- G Street — 2 readers
- West Olive Avenue — 2 readers
- West 16th Street — 2 readers
- R Street — 2 readers
- Beachwood Drive — 2 readers
- Bellevue Road — 2 readers
- Merced County — 2 readers
- East Olive Avenue — 1 reader
- Merced — 1 reader
- East Yosemite Avenue — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Merced — all on the live map above.
Merced 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 23 traffic. Operators named on the record: UC Merced Police Department (5), Merced Police Department (4), Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Merced, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Merced. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Merced
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 Merced — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Merced (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Merced
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Merced, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Merced, CA
- Do you support use of license plate cameras in Merced County? Vote in Sun-Star poll
- Merced County Flock Camera Contract Extended Through 2030
What you can do in Merced
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 Merced
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).