Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oroville, California
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Oroville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Oroville
The readers mapped around Oroville break down as 21 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: BCSO. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Wyandotte Avenue — 4 readers
- Gillick Way — 2 readers
- Table Mountain Boulevard — 2 readers
- Mitchell Avenue — 2 readers
- Oroville Dam Boulevard East — 2 readers
- Washington Avenue — 1 reader
- Olive Highway — 1 reader
- Feather River Boulevard — 1 reader
- 3rd Street — 1 reader
- County Center Drive — 1 reader
- Montgomery Street — 1 reader
- Bird Street — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Oroville — all on the live map above.
Oroville CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Oroville CA PD runs 54 cameras of its own, has logged 188 plate-database searches, has captured 155,932 vehicle records. Its network connects to 71 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Oroville in the Butte County picture
Butte County has 89 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #664 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 209,470 residents and 3,455 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: BCSO (1).
Camera activity around Oroville, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Oroville. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Oroville
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 Oroville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oroville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oroville
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Oroville, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Oroville, CA
What you can do in Oroville
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 Oroville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).