Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oxnard, California
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Oxnard — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Deactivated
Oxnard is on the record here. Oxnard police suspended operation of its 19 Flock fixed-position cameras after a vendor error allowed out-of-state agencies to query its data just over 364,000 times despite the office disabling National Lookup in June 2023.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Oxnard, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Oxnard itself.
The rest sit in Port Hueneme (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Oxnard in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:15 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Oxnard
The readers mapped around Oxnard break down as 16 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Channel Islands Boulevard — 3 readers
- South Ventura Road — 3 readers
- Camino del Sol — 2 readers
- South Rose Avenue — 2 readers
- Saviers Road — 1 reader
- Colonia Road — 1 reader
- North Ventura Road — 1 reader
- East 3rd Street — 1 reader
- West 5th Street — 1 reader
- East Pleasant Valley Road — 1 reader
Oxnard CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Oxnard CA PD runs 19 cameras of its own, has logged 109 plate-database searches. Its network connects to 110 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Oxnard in the Ventura County picture
Ventura County has 233 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,087 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 838,259 residents and 4,767 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching Oxnard
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 Oxnard — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oxnard (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oxnard
- Oxnard, CA: Cameras Deactivated
- Oxnard police suspend Flock license-plate readers; Ventura agencies tighten controls after out-of-state access
What you can do in Oxnard
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 Oxnard
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).