Flock & ALPR Cameras in Santa Rosa, California
Volunteers have reported 146 automated license plate readers in and around Santa Rosa — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Santa Rosa in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Santa Rosa
The readers mapped around Santa Rosa break down as 148 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Santa Rosa Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Mendocino Avenue — 23 readers
- Guerneville Road — 21 readers
- Range Avenue — 8 readers
- Fountaingrove Parkway — 7 readers
- College Avenue — 6 readers
- 4th Street — 5 readers
- Farmers Lane — 5 readers
- Bicentennial Way — 4 readers
- E Street — 3 readers
- Morgan Street — 3 readers
- North Dutton Avenue — 3 readers
- Marlow Road — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Santa Rosa — all on the live map above.
Santa Rosa CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Santa Rosa CA PD runs 129 cameras of its own, has logged 1,079 plate-database searches, has captured 676,678 vehicle records. Its network connects to 330 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD, Arcadia CA PD.
Santa Rosa in the Sonoma County picture
Sonoma County has 326 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #281 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.1% nationally. That’s across 485,642 residents and 4,667 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 102 traffic, 11 street. Operators named on the record: Santa Rosa Police Department (24).
Camera activity around Santa Rosa, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Santa Rosa. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Santa Rosa
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 Rosa — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Santa Rosa (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Santa Rosa
- Santa Rosa police defend Flock license plate readers amid privacy concerns
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Santa Rosa, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Santa Rosa, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Santa Rosa, CA
What you can do in Santa Rosa
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.
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Cameras near Santa Rosa
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).