Flock & ALPR Cameras in El Centro, California
Volunteers have reported 90 automated license plate readers in and around El Centro — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near El Centro in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:23 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in El Centro
The readers mapped around El Centro break down as 85 Flock Safety, 3 FlockSafety, 1 Rekor. Named operators in the reports: El Centro Police Department, Lowe's, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Main Street — 8 readers
- Adams Avenue — 7 readers
- Ocotillo Drive — 6 readers
- West Orange Avenue — 5 readers
- West Lincoln Avenue — 4 readers
- Wake Avenue — 4 readers
- North Dogwood Street — 3 readers
- West Euclid Avenue — 3 readers
- Bradshaw Avenue — 3 readers
- East Danenberg Drive — 3 readers
- Lotus Avenue — 3 readers
- Ross Avenue — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around El Centro — all on the live map above.
El Centro CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, El Centro CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 129 other agencies.
El Centro in the Imperial County picture
Imperial County has 116 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #324 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 15.1% nationally. That’s across 179,319 residents and 4,418 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 23.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 80 traffic. Operators named on the record: El Centro Police Department (68), Lowe's (3), The Home Depot (3).
Camera activity around El Centro, last 30 days
7 newly reported in our hourly change log for El Centro. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching El Centro
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 El Centro — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to El Centro (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around El Centro
- 3 new license plate readers reported around El Centro, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around El Centro, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around El Centro, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around El Centro, CA
What you can do in El Centro
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.
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Cameras near El Centro
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).