Flock & ALPR Cameras in Palm Springs, California
Volunteers have reported 61 automated license plate readers in and around Palm Springs — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 61 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Palm Springs, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 54 of them sit inside Palm Springs itself.
The rest sit in Cathedral City (5).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 12 new license plate readers just reported around Palm Springs, CA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #PalmSprings
Where the cameras are in Palm Springs
The readers mapped around Palm Springs break down as 61 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Palm Canyon Drive — 5 readers
- North Palm Canyon Drive — 4 readers
- North Sunrise Way — 4 readers
- East Mesquite Avenue — 3 readers
- South Palm Canyon Drive — 3 readers
- East Ramon Road — 3 readers
- East Tachevah Drive — 3 readers
- East Tahquitz Canyon Way — 2 readers
- East Vista Chino — 2 readers
- East Alejo Road — 2 readers
- North Indian Canyon Drive — 2 readers
- West San Rafael Drive — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Palm Springs — all on the live map above.
Palm Springs CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Palm Springs CA PD runs 217 cameras of its own, has logged 560 plate-database searches, has captured 542,502 vehicle records. Its network connects to 152 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Bakersfield CA PD, Beaumont CA PD, Cathedral City CA PD, Chino CA PD, Citrus Heights CA PD, City of Riverside CA PD, Colton CA PD, Contra Costa County CA SO.
Palm Springs 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 44 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Palm Springs, last 30 days
25 newly reported in our hourly change log for Palm Springs. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Palm Springs
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 Springs — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Palm Springs (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Palm Springs
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Palm Springs, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Palm Springs, CA
- 12 new license plate readers reported around Palm Springs, CA
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Palm Springs, CA
What you can do in Palm Springs
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 Springs
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).