Flock & ALPR Cameras in Santa Cruz County, California
Volunteers have reported 95 automated license plate readers across Santa Cruz 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 Cruz County compares nationally
Santa Cruz County ranks #934 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. The count covers 266,021 residents and 2,010 miles of county roads — 3.308 cameras per 10,000 residents.
What’s watching Santa Cruz 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 Cruz County. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
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What you can do in Santa Cruz
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.