Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sun Valley, Nevada
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Sun Valley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sun Valley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Sun Valley itself.
The rest sit in Sparks (16).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Sparks (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sun Valley
The readers mapped around Sun Valley break down as 18 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Sparks. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Disc Drive — 4 readers
- Los Altos Parkway — 3 readers
- Sparks Boulevard — 3 readers
- Galleria Parkway — 2 readers
- Vista Boulevard — 2 readers
- West 7th Avenue — 1 reader
- Sun Valley Boulevard — 1 reader
- Sparks — 1 reader
- Shoppers Way — 1 reader
Sun Valley 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 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: Sparks (3).
Camera activity around Sun Valley, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sun Valley. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Sun Valley
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 Sun Valley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sun Valley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sun Valley
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 Sun Valley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).