Flock & ALPR Cameras in Santa Clara, California
Volunteers have reported 67 automated license plate readers in and around Santa Clara — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 69 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Santa Clara, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 63 of them sit inside Santa Clara itself.
The rest sit in San Jose (5), Sunnyvale (1).
28 of them name an operator in the record: Santa Clara Police Department (28). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 16 Bosch camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Bosch camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Santa Clara
The readers mapped around Santa Clara break down as 65 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Santa Clara Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Mission College Boulevard — 11 readers
- Lafayette Street — 8 readers
- Scott Boulevard — 7 readers
- Monroe Street — 4 readers
- North 1st Street — 2 readers
- East Brokaw Road — 2 readers
- El Camino Real — 2 readers
- Bowers Avenue — 2 readers
- Avina Circle — 2 readers
- Agnew Road — 2 readers
- De La Cruz Boulevard — 2 readers
- Comstock Street — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Santa Clara — all on the live map above.
Santa Clara CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Santa Clara CA PD runs 52 cameras of its own, has logged 1,241 plate-database searches, has captured 1,048,225 vehicle records. Its network connects to 367 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD.
Santa Clara in the Santa Clara County picture
Santa Clara County has 1,096 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #406 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19% nationally. That’s across 1,903,297 residents and 5,143 road miles. By road density that is 0.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 52 traffic. Operators named on the record: Santa Clara Police Department (28).
What’s watching Santa Clara
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 Santa Clara — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Santa Clara (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Santa Clara
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Santa Clara, CA
- Santa Clara County, CA: Cameras Deactivated
What you can do in Santa Clara
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 Santa Clara
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).