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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rio Linda, California

Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Rio Linda — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rio Linda, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Rio Linda itself.

The rest sit in Sacramento (37).

8 of them name an operator in the record: Sacramento Police Department (8). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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42
Reported cameras nearby
#153
of 898 California cities tracked
0.2%
of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 42 reported cameras around Rio Linda, 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 Rio Linda

No new reports near Rio Linda in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Rio Linda

The readers mapped around Rio Linda break down as 33 Flock Safety, 8 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Sacramento Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Club Center Drive — 4 readers
  • North Park Drive — 3 readers
  • Elkhorn Boulevard — 3 readers
  • Del Paso Road — 2 readers
  • Northborough Drive — 2 readers
  • Main Avenue — 1 reader
  • Mabry Drive — 1 reader
  • Brookmere Way — 1 reader
  • Portage Way — 1 reader
  • Bowden Square Way — 1 reader
  • Kokomo Drive — 1 reader
  • New Market Drive — 1 reader

+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Rio Linda — all on the live map above.

Rio Linda in the Sacramento County picture

Sacramento County has 614 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #763 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,584,047 residents and 4,199 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 42 traffic. Operators named on the record: Sacramento Police Department (8).

Camera activity around Rio Linda, last 30 days

4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Rio Linda. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.

What’s watching Rio Linda

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

The latest around Rio Linda

What you can do in Rio Linda

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.

Cameras near Rio Linda

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