Flock & ALPR Cameras in Compton, California
Volunteers have reported 52 automated license plate readers in and around Compton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 52 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Compton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 48 of them sit inside Compton itself.
The rest sit in Carson (2).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 16 new license plate readers just reported around Compton, CA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Compton
Where the cameras are in Compton
The readers mapped around Compton break down as 35 Flock Safety, 8 Axis Communications, 5 Neology, Inc.. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Willowbrook Avenue — 7 readers
- East Rosecrans Avenue — 6 readers
- East Alondra Boulevard — 4 readers
- Gateway Drive — 4 readers
- West Rosecrans Avenue — 4 readers
- East Compton Boulevard — 3 readers
- West Compton Boulevard — 3 readers
- West Greenleaf Boulevard — 3 readers
- South Alameda Street — 3 readers
- East Del Amo Boulevard — 2 readers
- South Wilmington Avenue — 2 readers
- East Palm Street — 2 readers
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Compton — all on the live map above.
Compton 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 50 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Compton, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Compton. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Compton
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 Compton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Compton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Compton
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Compton, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Compton, CA
- 16 new license plate readers reported around Compton, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Compton, CA
What you can do in Compton
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 Compton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).