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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sunnyside-Tahoe City, California

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Sunnyside-Tahoe City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sunnyside-Tahoe City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sunnyside-Tahoe City itself.

The rest sit in Olympic Valley (2), Tahoe City (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#757
of 898 California cities tracked
0.1%
of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Sunnyside-Tahoe City, 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 Sunnyside-Tahoe City

No new reports near Sunnyside-Tahoe City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:43 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Sunnyside-Tahoe City

The readers mapped around Sunnyside-Tahoe City break down as 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2025.

  • Alpine Meadows Road — 2 readers
  • CA 89 — 1 reader

Sunnyside-Tahoe City in the Placer County picture

Placer County has 232 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #422 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.7% nationally. That’s across 412,435 residents and 4,095 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.9% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.

What’s watching Sunnyside-Tahoe City

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

What you can do in Sunnyside-Tahoe City

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.

Cameras near Sunnyside-Tahoe City

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