Flock & ALPR Cameras in Burlingame, California
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Burlingame — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Burlingame, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Burlingame itself.
The rest sit in Hillsborough (6).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Burlingame Police Department (4), Burlingame PD (1). 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 Burlingame in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Burlingame
The readers mapped around Burlingame break down as 15 Flock Safety, 12 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Burlingame Police Department, Burlingame PD. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2023; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Airport Boulevard — 7 readers
- Bay Trail Lane — 6 readers
- Broadway — 3 readers
- Eucalyptus Avenue — 2 readers
- Rollins Road — 1 reader
- The San Francisco Bay Trail — 1 reader
- Barroilhet Avenue — 1 reader
- California Drive — 1 reader
- Forest View Avenue — 1 reader
- Kammerer Court — 1 reader
- Floribunda Avenue — 1 reader
- Carolan Avenue — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Burlingame — all on the live map above.
Burlingame CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Burlingame CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 137 other agencies.
Burlingame 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 20 traffic. Operators named on the record: Burlingame Police Department (4), Burlingame PD (1).
What’s watching Burlingame
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 Burlingame — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Burlingame (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Burlingame
- On the agenda: Burlingame City Council on 2026-09-21 7:00 PM - Sep 21, 2026 — ALPR (Sep 22)
- On the agenda: Burlingame City Council — ALPR (Sep 21)
- On the agenda: Burlingame City Council on 2026-09-21 7:00 PM - Sep 21, 2026 — ALPR (Sep 17)
- New surveillance cameras on hold for Burlingame
What you can do in Burlingame
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 Burlingame
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).