Flock & ALPR Cameras in Altadena, California
Volunteers have reported 63 automated license plate readers in and around Altadena — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 63 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Altadena, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 56 of them sit inside Altadena itself.
The rest sit in Pasadena (7).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Pasadena Police Department (4), Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (1). 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 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Altadena
The readers mapped around Altadena break down as 56 Flock Safety, 7 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Pasadena Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- New York Drive — 8 readers
- East Mendocino Street — 7 readers
- East Woodbury Road — 6 readers
- North Lake Avenue — 6 readers
- North Allen Avenue — 6 readers
- East Altadena Drive — 5 readers
- West Woodbury Road — 3 readers
- East Washington Boulevard — 3 readers
- West Loma Alta Drive — 3 readers
- East Loma Alta Drive — 3 readers
- Fair Oaks Avenue — 2 readers
- North Hill Avenue — 2 readers
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around Altadena — all on the live map above.
Altadena in the Los Angeles County picture
Los Angeles County has 2,677 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,106 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 9,848,406 residents and 18,753 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 60 traffic. Operators named on the record: Pasadena Police Department (4), Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (1).
Camera activity around Altadena, last 30 days
4 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Altadena. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Altadena
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 Altadena — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Altadena (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Altadena
- Wary Altadena residents question influx of Flock cameras post-Eaton fire
- Flock Cameras, Legislative Updates on Agenda for Sept. 15 Altadena Town Council Meeting
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Altadena, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Altadena, CA
What you can do in Altadena
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 Altadena
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).