Flock & ALPR Cameras in Riverside, California
Volunteers have reported 47 automated license plate readers in and around Riverside — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Riverside in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Riverside
The readers mapped around Riverside break down as 47 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's Home Improvement. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Indiana Avenue — 6 readers
- Magnolia Avenue — 5 readers
- Central Avenue — 5 readers
- Van Buren Boulevard — 5 readers
- 14th Street — 4 readers
- Madison Street — 3 readers
- Adams Street — 3 readers
- Harrison Street — 2 readers
- Chicago Avenue — 2 readers
- Howard Avenue — 1 reader
- Riverside — 1 reader
- Arlington Avenue — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Riverside — all on the live map above.
Riverside 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 34 traffic, 6 street, 4 parking_entrance. Operators named on the record: Lowe's Home Improvement (2).
What’s watching Riverside
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 Riverside — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Riverside (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Riverside
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Riverside, CA
- Riverside County approves new contract to increase the number of license-plate reading cameras
- Riverside County Sheriff's Department pitches real-time crime center to Rancho Mirage in first city presentation
- Murrieta Approves $750K Contract Amendment With Flock Safety For Drone As First Responder Program
What you can do in Riverside
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 Riverside
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).