Flock & ALPR Cameras in Salida, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Salida — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Salida is on the record here. Salida, CO terminated its Flock Safety contract covering 6 cameras. Cited reasons: Public backlash; Privacy / data-retention / access concerns; Inappropriate-use concerns.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Salida, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Salida itself.
The rest sit in Poncha Springs (1).
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Salida in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Salida
The readers mapped around Salida break down as 5 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- US 50 — 2 readers
- CR 250 — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Poncha Boulevard — 1 reader
- CO 291 — 1 reader
Salida CO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Salida CO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 26 other agencies.
Salida 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 2 traffic.
What’s watching Salida
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 Salida — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Salida (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Salida
What you can do in Salida
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 Salida
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).