Flock & ALPR Cameras in Paonia, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Paonia — 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 Paonia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Paonia itself.
The rest sit in Hotchkiss (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Paonia in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:36 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Paonia
The readers mapped around Paonia break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Nov 2025.
- West Bridge Street — 1 reader
- CO 92 — 1 reader
- CO 133 — 1 reader
Paonia in the Delta County picture
Delta County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,529 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 31,353 residents and 1,355 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 68.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Paonia
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 Paonia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Paonia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Paonia
- Verkada Cameras Disabled at Paonia Town Park and Town Hall After Public Protest
- Crowd Confronts Paonia Board and Staff Over Verkada Cameras | Local Government News
What you can do in Paonia
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 Paonia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).