Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sparks, Nevada
Volunteers have reported 57 automated license plate readers in and around Sparks — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 57 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sparks, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 46 of them sit inside Sparks itself.
The rest sit in Reno (3).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Sparks (8), Lowe's (3), Storey County (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
8 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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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 Sparks
The readers mapped around Sparks break down as 56 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Sparks, Lowe's, Storey County. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Vista Boulevard — 5 readers
- Sparks — 4 readers
- Scheels Drive — 4 readers
- Sparks Boulevard — 4 readers
- Washoe County — 4 readers
- Oddie Boulevard — 3 readers
- East Lincoln Way — 3 readers
- Legends Bay Drive — 2 readers
- North McCarran Boulevard — 2 readers
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway — 2 readers
- Baring Boulevard — 2 readers
- East Prater Way — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Sparks — all on the live map above.
Sparks NV PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sparks NV PD runs 47 cameras of its own, has logged 586 plate-database searches, has captured 501,925 vehicle records. Its network connects to 26 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Sparks in the Washoe County picture
Washoe County has 132 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,116 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 491,770 residents and 6,021 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 27.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 45 traffic. Operators named on the record: Sparks (8), Lowe's (3), Storey County (1).
Camera activity around Sparks, last 30 days
14 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sparks. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Sparks
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 Sparks — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sparks (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sparks
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Sparks, NV
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sparks, NV
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sparks, NV
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Sparks, NV
What you can do in Sparks
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 Sparks
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).