Flock & ALPR Cameras in Woodside, California
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Woodside — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Woodside, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside Woodside itself.
The rest sit in Redwood City (3), North Fair Oaks (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Woodside in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Woodside
The readers mapped around Woodside break down as 21 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Woodside Road — 4 readers
- Cañada Road — 2 readers
- Alameda de las Pulgas — 2 readers
- Farm Hill Boulevard — 2 readers
- Whiskey Hill Road — 2 readers
- Kings Mountain Road — 1 reader
- Tripp Road — 1 reader
- High Road — 1 reader
- Woodside Trail — 1 reader
- Northgate Drive — 1 reader
- Our Hill Lane — 1 reader
- The Loop Road — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Woodside — all on the live map above.
Woodside in the San Mateo County picture
San Mateo County has 628 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #164 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.6% nationally. That’s across 745,100 residents and 1,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.34 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Woodside
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 Woodside — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Woodside (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Woodside
- On the agenda: Woodside meeting — License Plate Reader (Sep 8)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Woodside, CA
- On the agenda: Woodside meeting — Automated License Plate (May 26)
- On the agenda: Woodside meeting — Automated License Plate (Feb 10)
What you can do in Woodside
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 Woodside
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).