Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carson, California
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Carson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Carson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside Carson itself.
The rest sit in Los Angeles (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Carson
The readers mapped around Carson break down as 14 Motorola Solutions, 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Avalon Boulevard — 7 readers
- East Del Amo Boulevard — 5 readers
- Wilmington Avenue — 5 readers
- East Carson Street — 2 readers
- West Carson Street — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- 223rd Street — 1 reader
- Scottsdale Drive — 1 reader
- South Figueroa Street — 1 reader
Carson in the Los Angeles County picture
Los Angeles County has 2,677 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,106 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 9,848,406 residents and 18,753 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 21 traffic, 2 street.
What’s watching Carson
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 Carson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Carson
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 Carson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).