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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gresham, Oregon

Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Gresham — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gresham, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Gresham itself.

The rest sit in Portland (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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6
Reported cameras nearby
#24
of 88 Oregon cities tracked
1.1%
of Oregon’s reported cameras
Live camera map 6 reported cameras around Gresham, Oregon
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Gresham
+0 this week +2 last 30 days −1 removed
  • Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Gresham

The readers mapped around Gresham break down as 4 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Southeast 174th Avenue — 1 reader
  • Northwest 8th Street — 1 reader
  • Southwest 11th Street — 1 reader
  • Northeast 24th Street — 1 reader
  • Northwest Burnside Road — 1 reader

Gresham in the Multnomah County picture

Multnomah County has 70 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,823 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 803,863 residents and 2,218 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 20.2% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.

Camera activity around Gresham, last 30 days

2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gresham. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.

What’s watching Gresham

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 Gresham — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gresham (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Gresham

What you can do in Gresham

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.

Cameras near Gresham

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).