Flock & ALPR Cameras in Brea, California
Volunteers have reported 50 automated license plate readers in and around Brea — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 50 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Brea, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 43 of them sit inside Brea itself.
The rest sit in Fullerton (7).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Brea
The readers mapped around Brea break down as 27 Flock Safety, 14 Motorola Solutions, 1 Verkada. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Imperial Highway — 4 readers
- South Associated Road — 3 readers
- North Tonner Ridge Drive — 3 readers
- Carmichael Drive — 2 readers
- North State College Boulevard — 2 readers
- South State College Boulevard — 2 readers
- Sandpiper Way — 2 readers
- East Santa Fe Road — 2 readers
- South Kraemer Boulevard — 2 readers
- Ladera Vista Drive — 2 readers
- Placentia Avenue — 2 readers
- North Sutter Court — 2 readers
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Brea — all on the live map above.
Brea CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Brea CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 11 other agencies.
Brea in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 1,223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #764 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,164,063 residents and 6,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 40 traffic, 1 parking.
Camera activity around Brea, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Brea. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Brea
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 Brea — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Brea (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Brea
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Brea, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Brea, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Brea, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Brea, CA
What you can do in Brea
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 Brea
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).