Flock & ALPR Cameras in Palm Desert, California
Volunteers have reported 69 automated license plate readers in and around Palm Desert — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Palm Desert
The readers mapped around Palm Desert break down as 61 Flock Safety, 4 of unrecorded make, 1 Axon Enterprise. Named operators in the reports: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Fred Waring Drive — 7 readers
- Portola Avenue — 7 readers
- East Palm Canyon Drive — 6 readers
- El Paseo — 5 readers
- Shadow Mountain Drive — 4 readers
- Frank Sinatra Drive — 3 readers
- Country Club Drive — 2 readers
- Pines To Palms Highway — 2 readers
- Haystack Road — 2 readers
- San Gorgonio Way — 2 readers
- Monterey Avenue — 2 readers
- Hovley Lane East — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Palm Desert — all on the live map above.
Palm Desert in the Riverside County picture
Riverside County has 1,818 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #222 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.3% nationally. That’s across 2,449,909 residents and 12,509 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 52 traffic. Operators named on the record: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (1).
Camera activity around Palm Desert, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Palm Desert. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Palm Desert
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 Palm Desert — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Palm Desert (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Palm Desert
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Palm Desert, CA
- UPDATE : Palm Desert man accused of attacking Flock camera contractor is out on bail ; case now in DA hands
- Man accused of attacking Flock camera contractor in Palm Desert expected in court today
- Man arrested after alleged road rage incident involving handgun in Palm Desert
What you can do in Palm Desert
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 Palm Desert
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).