Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cypress, California
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Cypress — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cypress, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Cypress itself.
The rest sit in Buena Park (2), Garden Grove (2), Los Alamitos (2), Anaheim (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (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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No new reports near Cypress in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cypress
The readers mapped around Cypress break down as 11 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 2 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Lincoln Avenue — 6 readers
- Valley View Street — 3 readers
- Katella Avenue — 2 readers
- Knott Avenue — 1 reader
- West Lincoln Avenue — 1 reader
- Walker Street — 1 reader
- Ball Road — 1 reader
Cypress CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cypress CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 132 other agencies.
Cypress 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 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (4).
What’s watching Cypress
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 — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cypress (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cypress
What you can do in Cypress
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 Cypress
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).