Flock & ALPR Cameras in Orcutt, California
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Orcutt — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Orcutt, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Orcutt itself.
The rest sit in Santa Maria (5).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Santa Maria Police Department (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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- 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 Orcutt
The readers mapped around Orcutt break down as 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Santa Maria Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Black Road — 2 readers
- East Clark Avenue — 2 readers
- Santa Maria Way — 2 readers
- Cabrillo Highway — 1 reader
- Skyway Drive — 1 reader
- South College Drive — 1 reader
Orcutt in the Santa Barbara County picture
Santa Barbara County has 162 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #839 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 443,975 residents and 5,240 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 20.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Santa Maria Police Department (1).
What’s watching Orcutt
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 Orcutt — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Orcutt (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Orcutt
What you can do in Orcutt
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 Orcutt
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).