Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Los Angeles, California
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around East Los Angeles — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Los Angeles, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside East Los Angeles itself.
The rest sit in Commerce (1), Montebello (1).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in East Los Angeles
The readers mapped around East Los Angeles break down as 2 Motorola Solutions. Every report here dates to Apr 2026.
- Whittier Boulevard — 2 readers
East Los Angeles 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 2 traffic.
What’s watching East Los Angeles
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 East Los Angeles — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Los Angeles (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in East Los Angeles
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 East Los Angeles
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).