Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bell Gardens, California
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Bell Gardens — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Bell Gardens in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bell Gardens
The readers mapped around Bell Gardens break down as 21 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Eastern Avenue — 5 readers
- Florence Avenue — 4 readers
- Garfield Avenue — 4 readers
- East Gage Avenue — 3 readers
- East Slauson Avenue — 2 readers
- Suva Street — 1 reader
- Foster Bridge Boulevard — 1 reader
- Bell Gardens — 1 reader
- Firestone Boulevard — 1 reader
- Kuhl Drive — 1 reader
- Telegraph Road — 1 reader
Bell Gardens CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bell Gardens CA PD runs 23 cameras of its own, has captured 594,794 vehicle records. Its network connects to 110 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Bell Gardens 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 12 traffic.
Camera activity around Bell Gardens, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bell Gardens. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Bell Gardens
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 Bell Gardens — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bell Gardens (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bell Gardens
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 Bell Gardens
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).