Flock & ALPR Cameras in Truckee, California
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Truckee — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Truckee in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Truckee
The readers mapped around Truckee break down as 27 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Truckee Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Donner Pass Road — 6 readers
- CA 89 — 3 readers
- Glenshire Drive — 3 readers
- CA 267 — 3 readers
- Brockway Road — 2 readers
- Northwoods Boulevard — 2 readers
- Truckee — 1 reader
- Truckee Way — 1 reader
- Pioneer Trail/DPR RAB — 1 reader
- Frates Lane — 1 reader
- Schaffer Mill Road — 1 reader
- South Shore Drive — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Truckee — all on the live map above.
Truckee CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Truckee CA PD runs 25 cameras of its own, has logged 45 plate-database searches, has captured 182,290 vehicle records. Its network connects to 107 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: California Highway Patrol, Grass Valley CA PD, Nevada City CA PD, Nevada County CA SO, Placer County CA SO.
Truckee in the Nevada County picture
Nevada County has 85 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #170 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.9% nationally. That’s across 102,452 residents and 3,234 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 23.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Truckee Police Department (7).
Camera activity around Truckee, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Truckee. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Truckee
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 Truckee — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Truckee (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Truckee
- Reno to install surveillance cameras along Truckee River after council debate over privacy
- Truckee Police Department Using License Plate Reading Cameras to Help with Crime Prevention
- Truckee Police to bring automated license plate readers to Town Council
- Truckee Police Department considering license plate reader software
What you can do in Truckee
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 Truckee
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).