Flock & ALPR Cameras in Buena Park, California
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Buena Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Buena Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Buena Park itself.
The rest sit in Fullerton (4), La Mirada (3).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Target (2). 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 Buena Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Buena Park
The readers mapped around Buena Park break down as 16 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Target. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Orangethorpe Avenue — 2 readers
- West Orangethorpe Avenue — 2 readers
- Beach Boulevard — 2 readers
- Artesia Boulevard — 2 readers
- La Palma Avenue — 2 readers
- Santa Gertrudes Avenue — 1 reader
- La Mirada Boulevard — 1 reader
- Knott Avenue — 1 reader
- Firestone Boulevard South — 1 reader
- West Carol Drive — 1 reader
- Auto Center Drive — 1 reader
- Malvern Avenue — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Buena Park — all on the live map above.
Buena Park CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Buena Park CA PD runs 16 cameras of its own, has logged 659 plate-database searches, has captured 937,278 vehicle records. Its network connects to 336 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, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD.
Buena Park 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 12 traffic, 2 street. Operators named on the record: Target (2).
Camera activity around Buena Park, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Buena Park. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Buena Park
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 Buena Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Buena Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Buena Park
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Buena Park, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Buena Park, CA
What you can do in Buena Park
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 Buena Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).