Flock & ALPR Cameras in Stanford, California
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Stanford — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Stanford, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Stanford itself.
The rest sit in Palo Alto (12).
17 of them name an operator in the record: Stanford University (17). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
12 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Stanford in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Stanford
The readers mapped around Stanford break down as 23 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Stanford University. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2023; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- El Camino Real — 2 readers
- Quarry Road — 2 readers
- Stanford Perimeter Trail — 2 readers
- Raimundo Way — 2 readers
- Vineyard Lane — 1 reader
- Page Mill Road — 1 reader
- Campus Drive West — 1 reader
- Gerona Road — 1 reader
- Serra Street — 1 reader
- Escondido Road — 1 reader
- Oberlin Street — 1 reader
- Wellesley Street — 1 reader
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around Stanford — all on the live map above.
Stanford in the Santa Clara County picture
Santa Clara County has 1,096 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #406 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19% nationally. That’s across 1,903,297 residents and 5,143 road miles. By road density that is 0.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Stanford University (17).
What’s watching Stanford
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 Stanford — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Stanford (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Stanford
What you can do in Stanford
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 Stanford
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).