Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sutter Creek, California
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Sutter Creek — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sutter Creek, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Sutter Creek itself.
The rest sit in Plymouth (3).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
7 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 15 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sutter Creek
The readers mapped around Sutter Creek break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Industry Boulevard — 3 readers
- Zinfandel Parkway — 2 readers
- Airport Road — 2 readers
- Ridge Road — 1 reader
- CA 49 — 1 reader
- Shenandoah Road — 1 reader
Sutter Creek in the Amador County picture
Amador County has 10 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,205 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 41,029 residents and 1,217 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 48.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3).
What’s watching Sutter Creek
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 Sutter Creek — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sutter Creek (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sutter Creek
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 Sutter Creek
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).