Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bostonia, California
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Bostonia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bostonia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Bostonia itself.
The rest sit in El Cajon (32), Winter Gardens (1).
9 of them name an operator in the record: City of El Cajon (9). 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 Bostonia in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bostonia
The readers mapped around Bostonia break down as 24 Flock Safety, 9 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: City of El Cajon. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- North 2nd Street — 6 readers
- East Main Street — 6 readers
- East Washington Avenue — 3 readers
- Broadway — 3 readers
- North 1st Street — 3 readers
- Jamacha Road — 2 readers
- Oakdale Avenue — 2 readers
- East Lexington Avenue — 2 readers
- South 1st Street — 2 readers
- East Bradley Avenue — 2 readers
- North Mollison Avenue — 1 reader
- East Madison Avenue — 1 reader
Bostonia 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 24 traffic, 9 public. Operators named on the record: City of El Cajon (9).
What’s watching Bostonia
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 Bostonia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bostonia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bostonia
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 Bostonia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).