Flock & ALPR Cameras in Murrieta, California
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Murrieta — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Murrieta, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 39 of them sit inside Murrieta itself.
The rest sit in De Luz Ranchos (2), Wildomar (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1). 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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No new reports near Murrieta in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
📷 17 new license plate readers just reported around Murrieta, CA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Murrieta
Where the cameras are in Murrieta
The readers mapped around Murrieta break down as 41 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- California Oaks Road — 10 readers
- Lincoln Avenue — 7 readers
- Madison Avenue — 4 readers
- Sunflower Road — 4 readers
- Murrieta Hot Springs Road — 3 readers
- Clinton Keith Road — 2 readers
- Washington Avenue — 2 readers
- Lowe's Drive — 2 readers
- Murrieta Springs Plaza — 2 readers
- Juniper Street — 1 reader
- Kalmia Street — 1 reader
- De Luz Road — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Murrieta — all on the live map above.
Murrieta CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Murrieta CA PD runs 73 cameras of its own, has logged 783 plate-database searches, has captured 833,148 vehicle records. Its network connects to 331 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD.
Murrieta in the Riverside County picture
Riverside County has 1,818 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #222 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.3% nationally. That’s across 2,449,909 residents and 12,509 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 35 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Murrieta, last 30 days
5 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Murrieta. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Murrieta
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 Murrieta — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Murrieta (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Murrieta
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Murrieta, CA
- 17 new license plate readers reported around Murrieta, CA
- Murrieta Approves $750K Contract Amendment With Flock Safety For Drone As First Responder Program
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Murrieta Hot Springs, CA
What you can do in Murrieta
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 Murrieta
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).