Flock & ALPR Cameras in Avila Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Avila Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Avila Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Avila Beach itself.
The rest sit in Pismo Beach (1), Shell Beach (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Avila Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Avila Beach
The readers mapped around Avila Beach break down as 3 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Shell Beach Road — 1 reader
- Mattie Road — 1 reader
- Avila Beach Drive — 1 reader
- Ontario Road — 1 reader
- Cave Landing Road — 1 reader
Avila Beach in the San Luis Obispo County picture
San Luis Obispo County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #691 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 281,486 residents and 7,034 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 32.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Avila Beach, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Avila Beach. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Avila Beach
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 Avila Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Avila Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Avila Beach
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 Avila Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).