Flock & ALPR Cameras in Santa Clara County, California
Volunteers have reported 1,195 automated license plate readers across Santa Clara County — each one logging every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 12 new license plate readers just reported around Sunnyvale, CA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Sunnyvale
How Santa Clara County compares nationally
Santa Clara County ranks #406 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19% nationally. The count covers 1,903,297 residents and 5,143 miles of county roads — 5.7584 cameras per 10,000 residents.
What’s watching Santa Clara County
Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, stamp it with time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s routinely shared across agencies — here’s where that data goes. Counts reflect cameras volunteers have mapped inside Santa Clara County. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Santa Clara
- Santa Clara Judge Rejects Privacy Challenge to San Jose Flock Cameras, Allows Warrantless Searches of Millions of License Plate Records
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Santa Clara, CA
- Santa Clara County, CA: Cameras Deactivated
What you can do in Santa Clara
County commissions and sheriff’s offices sign these contracts — and answer to residents. Ask how long plate data is kept and who it’s shared with: file a public records request, speak at a public meeting, and see the playbook on Take Action. Organizing locally? Join or start a chapter.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. County boundaries: US Census.