Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tehachapi, California
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Tehachapi — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tehachapi, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Tehachapi itself.
The rest sit in Golden Hills (1).
3 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 Tehachapi in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Tehachapi
The readers mapped around Tehachapi break down as 11 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Tehachapi Boulevard — 2 readers
- North Mill Street — 2 readers
- Highline Road — 2 readers
- East Tehachapi Boulevard — 2 readers
- Red Apple Avenue — 1 reader
- Valley Boulevard — 1 reader
- Sand Canyon Road — 1 reader
Tehachapi CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Tehachapi CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 126 other agencies.
Tehachapi in the Kern County picture
Kern County has 259 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,066 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 910,433 residents and 20,824 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Tehachapi, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Tehachapi. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Tehachapi
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 Tehachapi — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tehachapi (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Tehachapi
What you can do in Tehachapi
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 Tehachapi
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).