Flock & ALPR Cameras in Chula Vista, California
Volunteers have reported 59 automated license plate readers in and around Chula Vista — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Paused
Chula Vista is on the record here. Chula Vista reversed course and paused sharing license-plate reader data with ICE and Border Patrol.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 59 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Chula Vista, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 48 of them sit inside Chula Vista itself.
The rest sit in National City (10), Lincoln Acres (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Chula Vista Police Department (4). 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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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Chula Vista
The readers mapped around Chula Vista break down as 59 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Chula Vista Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Broadway — 8 readers
- 3rd Avenue — 6 readers
- E Street — 4 readers
- Orange Avenue — 4 readers
- Main Street — 3 readers
- Hilltop Drive — 3 readers
- Sweetwater Road — 3 readers
- Plaza Bonita Road — 3 readers
- East 30th Street — 2 readers
- H Street — 2 readers
- North 2nd Avenue — 1 reader
- East H Street — 1 reader
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Chula Vista — all on the live map above.
Chula Vista CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Chula Vista CA PD runs 150 cameras of its own, has logged 1,204 plate-database searches, has captured 1,197,181 vehicle records. Its network connects to 323 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.
Chula Vista in the San Diego County picture
San Diego County has 1,252 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #781 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,282,782 residents and 11,651 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic, 1 public. Operators named on the record: Chula Vista Police Department (4).
Camera activity around Chula Vista, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Chula Vista. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Chula Vista
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 Chula Vista — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Chula Vista (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Chula Vista
- Chula Vista Police Hit Pause on Flock Drone Deal Over Cost, Privacy Fears
- Chula Vista police put drone contract on hold
- Chula Vista police pause proposal to use unmanned Flock drones
- Amid national backlash against Flock, Chula Vista may seek closer ties with company
What you can do in Chula Vista
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 Chula Vista
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).