Flock & ALPR Cameras in Thermal, California
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Thermal — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Thermal, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Thermal itself.
The rest sit in La Quinta (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
No new reports near Thermal in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Thermal
The readers mapped around Thermal break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jun 2026.
- 60th Avenue — 1 reader
Thermal in the Riverside County picture
Riverside County has 1,818 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #222 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.3% nationally. That’s across 2,449,909 residents and 12,509 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Thermal
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 Thermal — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Thermal (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Thermal
- Edison Council Approves Flock Tech Expansion, Including Thermal Drone
- Delhi Police to Use AI Smart Glasses with Facial Recognition, Thermal Imaging for Republic Day Security
- CyberLink FaceMe® Enhances Facial Recognition Technology With Thermal Camera Imaging
- Facial Recognition, Thermal Imaging Part of the New Normal
What you can do in Thermal
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 Thermal
← All California cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).