Flock & ALPR Cameras in Salida, California
Volunteers have reported 35 automated license plate readers in and around Salida — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 35 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Salida, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Salida itself.
The rest sit in Modesto (34).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (6), Modesto Police Department (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Salida in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Salida
The readers mapped around Salida break down as 24 Motorola Solutions, 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Modesto Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Pelandale Avenue — 8 readers
- Standiford Avenue — 6 readers
- Chapman Road — 4 readers
- Modesto — 4 readers
- Prescott Road — 4 readers
- Sisk Road — 4 readers
- Dale Road — 2 readers
- Vintage Drive — 2 readers
- Bangs Avenue — 1 reader
Salida 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 30 traffic, 4 entrance. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (6), Modesto Police Department (4).
Camera activity around Salida, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Salida. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Salida
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 Salida — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Salida (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Salida
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 Salida
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).