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From the Highway City

The Kern County news you’d otherwise miss, gathered from public records.

Trackers

Live data, updated on a schedule

Evergreen pages that track Kern County’s public data over time: license plate readers and reservoir levels. Each tracker diffs every run and keeps a change log — so you can see not just the current state, but how it changes.

Updated 2026-08-05 ALPR map: weekly · water: daily
How

How trackers work

Every tracker is a small pipeline: fetch the public source (Overpass/OSM, CDEC), normalize it, diff it against the stored snapshot, and bake the result into a static page at build time. There is no database and no client-side data fetching — the page you see is the page that was built. Adding a tracker is a ~30-minute job: see the README.

ALPR count on the last build: 247 cameras mapped (218 Flock Safety). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.