Flock & ALPR Cameras in Colma, California
Volunteers have reported 64 automated license plate readers in and around Colma — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 64 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Colma, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Colma itself.
The rest sit in Daly City (31), South San Francisco (18), Pacifica (5).
20 of them name an operator in the record: Daly City Police Department (15), South San Francisco Police Department (3), Colma Police Department (2). 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 Colma in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 17:07 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Colma
The readers mapped around Colma break down as 60 Flock Safety, 3 CoStar, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Daly City Police Department, South San Francisco Police Department, Colma Police Department. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Hickey Boulevard — 11 readers
- Serramonte Boulevard — 8 readers
- El Camino Real — 8 readers
- Junipero Serra Boulevard — 5 readers
- Callan Boulevard — 5 readers
- Gellert Boulevard — 4 readers
- Westborough Boulevard — 3 readers
- Hillside Boulevard — 3 readers
- King Drive — 3 readers
- Clarinada Avenue — 2 readers
- Southgate Avenue — 2 readers
- East Market Street — 2 readers
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around Colma — all on the live map above.
Colma CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Colma CA PD runs 11 cameras of its own, has logged 100 plate-database searches, has captured 355,514 vehicle records. Its network connects to 335 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, 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.
Colma 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 39 traffic, 1 parking_lot. Operators named on the record: Daly City Police Department (15), South San Francisco Police Department (3), Colma Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Colma, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Colma. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Colma
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 Colma — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Colma (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Colma
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 Colma
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).