Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Highlands, California
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around North Highlands — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Highlands, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside North Highlands itself.
The rest sit in Rio Linda (1).
18 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in North Highlands
The readers mapped around North Highlands break down as 15 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Watt Avenue — 6 readers
- Elkhorn Boulevard — 3 readers
- Peacekeeper Way — 3 readers
- Elkhorn Frontage Road — 2 readers
- PFE Road — 1 reader
- Don Julio Boulevard — 1 reader
- Elverta Road — 1 reader
- Ae Street — 1 reader
North Highlands in the Sacramento County picture
Sacramento County has 614 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #763 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,584,047 residents and 4,199 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.
Camera activity around North Highlands, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for North Highlands. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching North Highlands
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 North Highlands — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Highlands (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Highlands
What you can do in North Highlands
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.
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Cameras near North Highlands
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).