Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Lake Tahoe, California
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around South Lake Tahoe — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Lake Tahoe, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Lake Tahoe itself.
The rest sit in Meyers (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near South Lake Tahoe in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:04 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Lake Tahoe
The readers mapped around South Lake Tahoe break down as 2 Motorola Solutions. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- Route 50 — 2 readers
South Lake Tahoe in the El Dorado County picture
El Dorado County has 73 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #789 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 192,299 residents and 3,596 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
Camera activity around South Lake Tahoe, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for South Lake Tahoe. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching South Lake Tahoe
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 South Lake Tahoe — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Lake Tahoe (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Lake Tahoe
What you can do in South Lake Tahoe
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 South Lake Tahoe
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).