California · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Palo Cedro, California

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Palo Cedro — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Palo Cedro, California

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Palo Cedro

No new reports near Palo Cedro in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Palo Cedro

The readers mapped around Palo Cedro break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Apr 2026.

Deschutes Road — 1 reader
Old Oregon Trail — 1 reader

Palo Cedro in the Shasta County picture

Shasta County has 71 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #755 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 181,554 residents and 6,962 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.

What’s watching Palo Cedro

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 Palo Cedro — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Palo Cedro (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Palo Cedro

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 Palo Cedro

Bella Vista (2) Redding (53) Anderson (17) Shasta Lake (2)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).