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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mill Valley, California

No cameras reported in and around Mill Valley — yet. That usually means nobody has checked, not that the roads are clear. Be the one who looks.

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Help put Mill Valley on the map

The camera map is built by volunteers, one report at a time — and nobody has surveyed Mill Valley yet. ALPRs look like small gray cameras on poles, often solar-powered, near intersections and shopping centers. Spot one? Reporting takes about a minute.

Live camera map The map around Mill Valley, California
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Mill Valley

No new reports near Mill Valley in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Mill Valley CA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mill Valley CA PD runs 6 cameras of its own, has logged 22 plate-database searches, has captured 171,018 vehicle records. Its network connects to 125 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.

Connected agencies include: Belvedere CA PD, Central Marin CA PD, Marin County CA DA, Marin County CA SO, Palo Alto CA PD, Sausalito CA PD.

Mill Valley in the Marin County picture

Marin County has 99 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #777 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 258,765 residents and 1,787 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.2% of counties nationally.

Why this page exists

Automated license plate readers are spreading town by town, usually with no public vote — volunteers have already mapped 20,858 across California. Cameras often arrive quietly in towns exactly like Mill Valley: a council consent-agenda item, then poles by the grocery store. Learn what they look like, check the roads you drive daily, and this page will update as reports come in.

The latest around Mill Valley

What you can do in Mill Valley

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.

Cameras near Mill Valley

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).