Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oildale, California
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Oildale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 39 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Oildale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Oildale itself.
The rest sit in Bakersfield (17).
2 of them name an operator in the record: California Resources Corporation (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
22 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 27 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Oildale
The readers mapped around Oildale break down as 35 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: California Resources Corporation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Olive Drive — 3 readers
- Roberts Lane — 3 readers
- Bakersfield-Glennville Road — 2 readers
- Airport Drive — 2 readers
- Chester Avenue — 2 readers
- Tuscany Villas Drive — 2 readers
- Tuscany Hills Drive — 2 readers
- Norris Road — 2 readers
- Casa Club Drive — 2 readers
- Canteria Drive — 2 readers
- Golden State Highway — 2 readers
- Cleargrove Court — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Oildale — all on the live map above.
Oildale in the Kern County picture
Kern County has 259 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,066 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 910,433 residents and 20,824 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 32 traffic. Operators named on the record: California Resources Corporation (2).
Camera activity around Oildale, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Oildale. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Oildale
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 Oildale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oildale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oildale
What you can do in Oildale
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 Oildale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).