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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cypress Village, California

Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Cypress Village — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cypress Village, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cypress Village itself.

The rest sit in Irvine (17).

15 of them name an operator in the record: Irvine Police Department (15). 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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Live camera map 17 reported cameras around Cypress Village, California
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Cypress Village
+0 this week +1 last 30 days −2 removed
  • Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Cypress Village

The readers mapped around Cypress Village break down as 16 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Irvine Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Jeffrey Road — 3 readers
  • Sand Canyon Avenue — 2 readers
  • Sand Canyon Sidepath — 2 readers
  • Ridge Valley — 2 readers
  • Great Park Boulevard — 2 readers
  • Walnut Avenue — 1 reader
  • Roosevelt — 1 reader
  • Keystone — 1 reader
  • Skyhawk — 1 reader
  • Marine Way — 1 reader
  • Trabuco Road — 1 reader

Cypress Village in the Orange County picture

Orange County has 1,223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #764 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,164,063 residents and 6,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.5% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: Irvine Police Department (15).

Camera activity around Cypress Village, last 30 days

1 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Cypress Village. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.

What’s watching Cypress Village

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 Cypress Village — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cypress Village (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Cypress Village

What you can do in Cypress Village

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.

Cameras near Cypress Village

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).