Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dana Point, California
Volunteers have reported 44 automated license plate readers in and around Dana Point — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 44 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dana Point, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 31 of them sit inside Dana Point itself.
The rest sit in San Clemente (5), Laguna Niguel (4), San Juan Capistrano (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Dana Point
The readers mapped around Dana Point break down as 41 Flock Safety, 2 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Pacific Coast Highway — 9 readers
- Camino de Estrella — 6 readers
- Camino Capistrano — 3 readers
- Stonehill Drive — 3 readers
- Golden Lantern Street — 3 readers
- Niguel Road — 2 readers
- Charles Road — 2 readers
- Doheny Park Road — 2 readers
- Cassis — 2 readers
- Crown Valley Parkway — 2 readers
- Via California — 1 reader
- Del Obispo Street — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Dana Point — all on the live map above.
Dana Point 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 37 traffic.
Camera activity around Dana Point, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Dana Point. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Dana Point
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 Dana Point — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dana Point (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Dana Point
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Dana Point, CA
- License Plate Reader Cameras to Be Installed in Dana Point
What you can do in Dana Point
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 Dana Point
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).