Flock & ALPR Cameras in Red Bluff, California
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Red Bluff — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Red Bluff
The readers mapped around Red Bluff break down as 2 Motorola Solutions, 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Red Bluff Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Luther Road — 1 reader
- Walnut Street — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- South Jackson Street — 1 reader
Red Bluff in the Tehama County picture
Tehama County has 8 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,656 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 65,520 residents and 5,727 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 85.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Red Bluff Police Department (1).
What’s watching Red Bluff
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 Red Bluff — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Red Bluff (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Red Bluff
- Anderson and Red Bluff examine ALPR camera programs at council meetings
- ALPR Notification Leads to Stolen Vehicle Recovery and Shoplifting Arrest in Red Bluff
- Red Bluff divided over license plate readers' privacy concerns
- Red Bluff Turnout Shows ALPR Debates Aren’t Going Away
What you can do in Red Bluff
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 Red Bluff
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).