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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Riverbank, California

Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Riverbank — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Riverbank, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Riverbank itself.

The rest sit in Modesto (2).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
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of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 10 reported cameras around Riverbank, California
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
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Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Riverbank

The readers mapped around Riverbank break down as 3 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.

  • Riverbank — 2 readers
  • Sylvan Avenue — 1 reader
  • Claus Road — 1 reader
  • 7th Street — 1 reader
  • Squire Wells Way — 1 reader

Riverbank in the Stanislaus County picture

Stanislaus County has 187 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #915 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 552,250 residents and 2,192 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.

What’s watching Riverbank

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

The latest around Riverbank

What you can do in Riverbank

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 Riverbank

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