Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bonsall, California
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Bonsall — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bonsall, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Bonsall itself.
The rest sit in Oceanside (3).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Oceanside Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Bonsall in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bonsall
The readers mapped around Bonsall break down as 5 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Oceanside Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Pala Road — 2 readers
- North River Road — 2 readers
- Avocado Highway — 1 reader
- Melrose Drive — 1 reader
Bonsall in the San Diego County picture
San Diego County has 1,252 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #781 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,282,782 residents and 11,651 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Oceanside Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Bonsall, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bonsall. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Bonsall
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 Bonsall — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bonsall (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bonsall
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 Bonsall
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).