Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oak Creek, California
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Oak Creek — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Oak Creek, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Oak Creek itself.
The rest sit in Irvine (8).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Irvine Police Department (3). 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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- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Oak Creek
The readers mapped around Oak Creek break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Irvine Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Sand Canyon Sidepath — 2 readers
- Sand Canyon Avenue — 2 readers
- Irvine Center Drive — 1 reader
- Barranca Parkway — 1 reader
- Valley Oak — 1 reader
- Sand Canyon Side Path — 1 reader
Oak Creek in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 1,223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #764 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,164,063 residents and 6,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Irvine Police Department (3).
Camera activity around Oak Creek, last 30 days
8 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for Oak Creek. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Oak Creek
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 Oak Creek — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oak Creek (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oak Creek
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Oak Creek, CA
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Oak Creek, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Oak Creek, CA
What you can do in Oak Creek
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 Oak Creek
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).