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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Winton, California

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Winton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Winton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Winton itself.

The rest sit in Atwater (3).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#733
of 898 California cities tracked
0.1%
of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Winton, California
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Winton

No new reports near Winton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:09 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Winton

The readers mapped around Winton break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Nov 2025.

  • Camellia Drive — 2 readers
  • Santa Fe Drive — 1 reader

Winton in the Merced County picture

Merced County has 52 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,451 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 285,597 residents and 3,702 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 36.2% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.

What’s watching Winton

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 Winton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Winton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Winton

What you can do in Winton

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.

Cameras near Winton

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).