Flock & ALPR Cameras in Nevada City, California
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Nevada City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Nevada City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Nevada City itself.
The rest sit in North San Juan (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Nevada City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Nevada City
The readers mapped around Nevada City break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- CA 49 — 2 readers
- Lower Grass Valley Road — 2 readers
- State Highway 49 — 1 reader
Nevada City CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Nevada City CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 129 other agencies.
Nevada City in the Nevada County picture
Nevada County has 85 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #170 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.9% nationally. That’s across 102,452 residents and 3,234 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 23.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Nevada City
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 Nevada City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Nevada City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Nevada City
What you can do in Nevada City
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 Nevada City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).