Flock & ALPR Cameras in Buena Vista, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Buena Vista — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Buena Vista
The readers mapped around Buena Vista break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- US 24;US 285 — 1 reader
- US 24 — 1 reader
Buena Vista in the Chaffee County picture
Chaffee County has 8 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #719 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 19,876 residents and 1,204 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 54% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Buena Vista
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 Buena Vista — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Buena Vista (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Buena Vista
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 Buena Vista
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).