Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sunnyvale, California
Volunteers have reported 51 automated license plate readers in and around Sunnyvale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 51 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sunnyvale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 40 of them sit inside Sunnyvale itself.
The rest sit in Mountain View (6), Santa Clara (5).
17 of them name an operator in the record: Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety (12), Santa Clara Police Department (3), Sunnyvale DPS (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 1 Genetec camera newly reported
- Oct 1 Genetec camera newly reported
- Oct 1 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 12 new license plate readers just reported around Sunnyvale, CA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Sunnyvale
Where the cameras are in Sunnyvale
The readers mapped around Sunnyvale break down as 31 Flock Safety, 9 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, Santa Clara Police Department, Sunnyvale DPS. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Fair Oaks Avenue — 5 readers
- East Middlefield Road — 5 readers
- North Mathilda Avenue — 3 readers
- Kifer Road — 2 readers
- South Mathilda Avenue — 2 readers
- East Arques Avenue — 2 readers
- Stewart Drive — 2 readers
- Tasman Drive — 2 readers
- West Maude Avenue — 2 readers
- Lockheed Martin Way — 2 readers
- Mountain View — 2 readers
- West Fremont Avenue — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Sunnyvale — all on the live map above.
Sunnyvale CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sunnyvale CA PD runs 20 cameras of its own, has logged 1,287 plate-database searches, has captured 868,102 vehicle records. Its network connects to 136 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Benicia CA PD, California Highway Patrol, Campbell CA PD, Foothill-DeAnza CA PD, Gilroy CA PD, Los Altos CA PD, Mill Valley CA PD, Milpitas CA PD.
Sunnyvale 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 24 traffic. Operators named on the record: Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety (13), Santa Clara Police Department (3), Sunnyvale DPS (2).
Camera activity around Sunnyvale, last 30 days
14 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for Sunnyvale. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Sunnyvale
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 Sunnyvale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sunnyvale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sunnyvale
- 12 new license plate readers reported around Sunnyvale, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sunnyvale, CA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Sunnyvale, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sunnyvale, CA
What you can do in Sunnyvale
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 Sunnyvale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).