Flock & ALPR Cameras in Milpitas, California
Volunteers have reported 108 automated license plate readers in and around Milpitas — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 109 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Milpitas, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 51 of them sit inside Milpitas itself.
The rest sit in San Jose (36), Fremont (12), Santa Clara (10).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Santa Clara Police Department (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Milpitas
The readers mapped around Milpitas break down as 101 Flock Safety, 3 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: Santa Clara Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North 1st Street — 9 readers
- Hostetter Road — 4 readers
- Barber Lane — 4 readers
- Jacklin Road — 3 readers
- Morrill Avenue — 3 readers
- Warm Springs Boulevard — 3 readers
- West Calaveras Boulevard — 3 readers
- East Trimble Road — 3 readers
- Lundy Avenue — 3 readers
- Bayside Parkway — 2 readers
- Cropley Avenue — 2 readers
- North Capitol Avenue — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Milpitas — all on the live map above.
Milpitas CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Milpitas CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 128 other agencies.
Milpitas 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 73 traffic. Operators named on the record: Santa Clara Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Milpitas, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Milpitas. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Milpitas
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 Milpitas — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Milpitas (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Milpitas
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Milpitas, CA
- Join us to say NO TO FLOCK cameras in Milpitas
- License plate reading camera helps nab suspect in Milpitas
- Man wanted for attempted homicide arrested after Milpitas plate reader alerts police
What you can do in Milpitas
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 Milpitas
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).