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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Soda Bay, California

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Soda Bay — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Soda Bay, 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 Soda Bay

No new reports near Soda Bay in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:01 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Soda Bay

The readers mapped around Soda Bay break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Apr 2026.

Soda Bay Road — 2 readers
State Park Road — 1 reader

Soda Bay in the Lake County picture

Lake County has 66 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #108 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 5% nationally. That’s across 68,139 residents and 3,801 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 31.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.

What’s watching Soda Bay

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

What you can do in Soda Bay

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 Soda Bay

Lucerne (4) Clearlake Oaks (10) Lakeport (14) North Lakeport (2)

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