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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shafter, California

Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Shafter — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Live camera map 27 reported cameras around Shafter, California

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Shafter

No new reports near Shafter in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:23 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Shafter

The readers mapped around Shafter break down as 27 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

East Lerdo Highway — 4 readers
West Lerdo Highway — 3 readers
North Shafter Avenue — 2 readers
Santa Fe Way — 2 readers
West Tulare Avenue — 2 readers
Central Avenue — 2 readers
Driver Road — 1 reader
Mannel Avenue — 1 reader
Shafter Avenue — 1 reader
East Tulare Avenue — 1 reader
West Los Angeles Avenue — 1 reader
East Los Angeles Avenue — 1 reader

+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Shafter — all on the live map above.

Shafter PD CA and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Shafter PD CA appears in the sharing network with connections to 130 other agencies.

Shafter in the Kern County picture

Kern County has 259 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,066 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 910,433 residents and 20,824 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 27 traffic.

Camera activity around Shafter, last 30 days

5 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Shafter. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.

What’s watching Shafter

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 Shafter — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Shafter (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Shafter

What you can do in Shafter

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 Shafter

Wasco (10) Rosedale (19) Greenacres (43) McFarland (25)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).