Flock & ALPR Cameras in Thousand Palms, California
Volunteers have reported 80 automated license plate readers in and around Thousand Palms — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 80 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Thousand Palms, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Thousand Palms itself.
The rest sit in Rancho Mirage (35), Palm Desert (30), Cathedral City (4).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Riverside County Sheriff's Office (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Thousand Palms
The readers mapped around Thousand Palms break down as 73 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Riverside County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Dinah Shore Drive — 13 readers
- Bob Hope Drive — 10 readers
- Gerald Ford Drive — 8 readers
- Monterey Avenue — 7 readers
- Ramon Road — 7 readers
- Cook Street — 7 readers
- Market Place Way — 4 readers
- Portola Avenue — 3 readers
- Varner Road — 3 readers
- Los Alamos Road — 2 readers
- Magnum — 2 readers
- Dick Kelly Drive — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Thousand Palms — all on the live map above.
Thousand Palms 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 61 traffic. Operators named on the record: Riverside County Sheriff's Office (3).
Camera activity around Thousand Palms, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Thousand Palms. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Thousand Palms
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 Palms — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Thousand Palms (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Thousand Palms
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Thousand Palms, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Thousand Palms, CA
- Thousand Palms man who flashed gun during road rage incident sentenced
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Thousand Palms, CA
What you can do in Thousand Palms
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 Thousand Palms
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).