Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Carmel-by-the-Sea — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 4 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Carmel-by-the-Sea
The readers mapped around Carmel-by-the-Sea break down as 13 Flock Safety, 6 Avigilon. Named operators in the reports: Carmel Police Department, Pebble Beach Company. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2021; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 17 Mile Drive — 3 readers
- North San Antonio Avenue — 2 readers
- Rio Road — 2 readers
- Ocean Avenue — 2 readers
- Junipero Street — 2 readers
- Carmel Way — 1 reader
- Mission Street — 1 reader
- 6th Avenue — 1 reader
- San Carlos Street — 1 reader
- 7th Avenue — 1 reader
- Carmel Valley Road — 1 reader
- Point Lobos — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Carmel-by-the-Sea — all on the live map above.
Carmel-by-the-Sea in the Monterey County picture
Monterey County has 303 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #264 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.3% nationally. That’s across 435,834 residents and 6,864 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic. Operators named on the record: Carmel Police Department (8), Pebble Beach Company (6).
Camera activity around Carmel-by-the-Sea, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Carmel-by-the-Sea. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Carmel-by-the-Sea
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 Carmel-by-the-Sea — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carmel-by-the-Sea (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Carmel-by-the-Sea
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 Carmel-by-the-Sea
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).