Flock & ALPR Cameras in Penn Valley, California
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Penn Valley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Penn Valley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Penn Valley itself.
The rest sit in Lake Wildwood (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Nevada County Sheriff’s Office (3), CAL FIRE (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 27 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Penn Valley
The readers mapped around Penn Valley break down as 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Nevada County Sheriff’s Office. Every report here dates to Dec 2024.
- Pleasant Valley Road — 1 reader
- Penn Valley Drive — 1 reader
- Indian Springs Road — 1 reader
Penn Valley in the Nevada County picture
Nevada County has 85 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #170 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.9% nationally. That’s across 102,452 residents and 3,234 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 23.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Nevada County Sheriff’s Office (3).
What’s watching Penn Valley
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 Penn Valley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Penn Valley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Penn Valley
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 Penn Valley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).