Flock & ALPR Cameras in Belmont, California
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Belmont — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Belmont, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Belmont itself.
The rest sit in San Mateo (15), San Carlos (4), Redwood City (2).
11 of them name an operator in the record: San Mateo Police Department (11). 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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No new reports near Belmont in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Belmont
The readers mapped around Belmont break down as 28 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: San Mateo Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- West Hillsdale Boulevard — 6 readers
- 31st Avenue — 3 readers
- Marine Parkway — 3 readers
- Laurie Meadows Drive — 2 readers
- Old County Road — 2 readers
- Ralston Avenue — 2 readers
- El Camino Real — 2 readers
- Pacific Boulevard — 1 reader
- Shoreway Road — 1 reader
- Alameda de las Pulgas — 1 reader
- Club Drive — 1 reader
- San Carlos Avenue — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Belmont — all on the live map above.
Belmont CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Belmont CA PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has logged 86 plate-database searches, has captured 312,411 vehicle records. Its network connects to 185 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Antioch CA PD, Atherton CA PD, Belvedere CA PD, Benicia CA PD, Berkeley CA PD.
Belmont in the San Mateo County picture
San Mateo County has 628 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #164 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.6% nationally. That’s across 745,100 residents and 1,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.34 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 street, 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: San Mateo Police Department (11).
What’s watching Belmont
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 Belmont — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Belmont (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Belmont
- On the agenda: Belmont, CA Public Safety Committee - Oct 07, 2026 — ALPR (Oct 2)
- On the agenda: Belmont, CA Public Safety Committee - Feb 24, 2025 — Automated License Plate (Feb 27)
What you can do in Belmont
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 Belmont
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).