Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rancho Mirage, California
Volunteers have reported 79 automated license plate readers in and around Rancho Mirage — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 79 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rancho Mirage, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 64 of them sit inside Rancho Mirage itself.
The rest sit in Palm Desert (15).
24 of them name an operator in the record: Riverside County Sheriff's Department (16), Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (8). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 17 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Axon Enterprise 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 Rancho Mirage
The readers mapped around Rancho Mirage break down as 67 Flock Safety, 7 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Riverside County Sheriff's Department, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Palm Canyon Drive — 19 readers
- Frank Sinatra Drive — 8 readers
- Bob Hope Drive — 8 readers
- Monterey Avenue — 7 readers
- Rancho Las Palmas Drive — 4 readers
- Magnesia Falls Drive — 2 readers
- Fred Waring Drive — 2 readers
- Indian Trail — 2 readers
- Country Club Drive — 2 readers
- Portola Avenue — 2 readers
- Verbenia Road — 1 reader
- Hovely Lane West — 1 reader
+ 17 more streets and roads mapped around Rancho Mirage — all on the live map above.
Rancho Mirage 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 45 traffic, 3 street, 3 parking_entrance. Operators named on the record: Riverside County Sheriff's Department (16), Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (8).
Camera activity around Rancho Mirage, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Rancho Mirage. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Rancho Mirage
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 Rancho Mirage — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rancho Mirage (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Rancho Mirage
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Rancho Mirage, CA
- Rancho Mirage man seeks legal counsel after alleged license plate camera error
- Riverside County Sheriff's Department pitches real-time crime center to Rancho Mirage in first city presentation
What you can do in Rancho Mirage
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 Rancho Mirage
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).