Flock & ALPR Cameras in Monterey County, California
Volunteers have reported 380 automated license plate readers across Monterey County — each one logging every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 1 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.
How Monterey County compares nationally
Monterey County ranks #264 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.3% nationally. The count covers 435,834 residents and 6,864 miles of county roads — 6.9522 cameras per 10,000 residents.
What’s watching Monterey County
Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, stamp it with time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s routinely shared across agencies — here’s where that data goes. Counts reflect cameras volunteers have mapped inside Monterey County. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Monterey
- Monterey County and Watsonville diverge on how to handle Flock cameras
- Decisiones sobre cámaras Flock generan debate en Monterey y Watsonville
- On the agenda: Monterey Board of Supervisors — Flock Safety (Sep 22)
- Salinas protestors say Flock camera expansion in Monterey County is an 'invasion of privacy'
What you can do in Monterey
County commissions and sheriff’s offices sign these contracts — and answer to residents. Ask how long plate data is kept and who it’s shared with: file a public records request, speak at a public meeting, and see the playbook on Take Action. Organizing locally? Join or start a chapter.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. County boundaries: US Census.