Flock & ALPR Cameras in Redwood Shores, California
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Redwood Shores — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Redwood Shores, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Redwood Shores itself.
The rest sit in Redwood City (8).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). 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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No new reports near Redwood Shores in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Redwood Shores
The readers mapped around Redwood Shores break down as 12 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Beacon Shores Drive — 2 readers
- Redwood City — 2 readers
- Redwood Shores Parkway — 2 readers
- Market Place Lane — 2 readers
- Corriente Point Drive — 2 readers
- Saint Lucia Drive — 1 reader
- Mindanao Drive — 1 reader
Redwood Shores in the San Mateo County picture
San Mateo County has 628 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #164 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.6% nationally. That’s across 745,100 residents and 1,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.34 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Redwood Shores
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 Redwood Shores — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Redwood Shores (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Redwood Shores
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Redwood Shores, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Redwood Shores, CA
What you can do in Redwood Shores
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 Redwood Shores
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).