Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cerritos, California
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Cerritos — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cerritos, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Cerritos itself.
The rest sit in Artesia (1), Lakewood (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Cerritos in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cerritos
The readers mapped around Cerritos break down as 4 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Artesia Boulevard — 2 readers
- Del Amo Boulevard — 1 reader
- South Street — 1 reader
- 195th Street — 1 reader
- Park Plaza Drive — 1 reader
- Shoemaker Avenue — 1 reader
Cerritos 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 6 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Cerritos, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cerritos. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Cerritos
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 Cerritos — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cerritos (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cerritos
- On the agenda: Cerritos City Council Special Meeting - May 28, 2026 — Automated License Plate (May 28)
- Cerritos Sheriffs Acquire Three Vehicles Equipped With License Plate Readers
- New Cerritos Sheriffs Station Patrol Vehicles Equipped With Automatic License Plate Reader Technology
- Pico Rivera Approves Pilot Test for ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection System
What you can do in Cerritos
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 Cerritos
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).