Flock & ALPR Cameras in Santa Paula, California
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Santa Paula — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 18 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 Paula
The readers mapped around Santa Paula break down as 13 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Santa Maria Street — 2 readers
- Acacia Way — 2 readers
- West Santa Paula Street — 2 readers
- South 10th Street — 1 reader
- South Palm Avenue — 1 reader
- South Peck Road — 1 reader
- Foothill Road — 1 reader
- South Hallock Drive — 1 reader
- Saticoy Street — 1 reader
- North 12th Street — 1 reader
Santa Paula CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Santa Paula CA PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 21 plate-database searches, has captured 113,556 vehicle records. Its network connects to 59 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alhambra CA PD, Arcadia CA PD, Azusa CA PD, Bakersfield CA PD, Baldwin Park CA PD, Barstow CA PD, Bell CA PD, Beverly Hills CA PD.
Santa Paula in the Ventura County picture
Ventura County has 233 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,087 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 838,259 residents and 4,767 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic.
Camera activity around Santa Paula, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Santa Paula. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Santa Paula
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 Paula — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Santa Paula (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Santa Paula
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Santa Paula, CA
- Street cameras will scan drivers' license plates in Santa Paula
What you can do in Santa Paula
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 Paula
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).