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Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Juan Bautista, California

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

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of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 10 reported cameras around San Juan Bautista, 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 San Juan Bautista
+0 this week +5 last 30 days −2 removed
  • Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 25 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in San Juan Bautista

The readers mapped around San Juan Bautista break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: San Juan Bautista Police Department, San Benito County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • The Alameda — 2 readers
  • San Juan Canyon Road — 1 reader
  • Monterey Street — 1 reader
  • First Street — 1 reader
  • San Justo Road — 1 reader
  • Old San Juan Hollister Road — 1 reader

San Juan Bautista CA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, San Juan Bautista CA PD runs 9 cameras of its own, has logged 4 plate-database searches, has captured 53,233 vehicle records. Its network connects to 10 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.

Connected agencies include: California Highway Patrol, California State Parks, Capitola CA PD, Gilroy CA PD, Monterey County CA SO, Morgan Hill CA PD, Salinas CA PD, San Benito County SO CA.

San Juan Bautista in the San Benito County picture

San Benito County has 25 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #795 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 66,056 residents and 2,618 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 44.8% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: San Juan Bautista Police Department (4), San Benito County Sheriff's Office (1).

Camera activity around San Juan Bautista, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for San Juan Bautista. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.

What’s watching San Juan Bautista

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

The latest around San Juan Bautista

What you can do in San Juan Bautista

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 San Juan Bautista

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