Flock & ALPR Cameras in Thousand Oaks, California
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Thousand Oaks — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 30 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Thousand Oaks
The readers mapped around Thousand Oaks break down as 26 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Thousand Oaks Police Department, TOPD. The first camera here was reported in May 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Hillcrest Drive — 5 readers
- East Thousand Oaks Boulevard — 5 readers
- North Westlake Boulevard — 4 readers
- West Wilbur Road — 3 readers
- East Avenida de Los Arboles — 3 readers
- West Thousand Oaks Boulevard — 2 readers
- Townsgate Road — 2 readers
- North Moorpark Road — 2 readers
- South Westlake Boulevard — 1 reader
- South Rancho Road — 1 reader
- South Moorpark Road — 1 reader
- Montgomery Road — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Thousand Oaks — all on the live map above.
Thousand Oaks in the Ventura County picture
Ventura County has 233 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,087 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 838,259 residents and 4,767 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic, 10 street. Operators named on the record: Thousand Oaks Police Department (11), TOPD (4).
Camera activity around Thousand Oaks, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Thousand Oaks. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Thousand Oaks
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 Thousand Oaks — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Thousand Oaks (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Thousand Oaks
What you can do in Thousand Oaks
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.
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Cameras near Thousand Oaks
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).