Flock & ALPR Cameras in El Monte, California
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around El Monte — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of El Monte, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside El Monte itself.
The rest sit in Baldwin Park (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (2). 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 El Monte in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 20:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in El Monte
The readers mapped around El Monte break down as 14 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Peck Road — 4 readers
- Ramona Boulevard — 4 readers
- Valley Boulevard — 3 readers
- Durfee Avenue — 2 readers
- El Monte Arrivals/Departures — 2 readers
- Main Street — 1 reader
El Monte CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, El Monte CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 131 other agencies.
El Monte 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 14 traffic. Operators named on the record: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (2).
What’s watching El Monte
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 Monte — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to El Monte (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around El Monte
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South El Monte, CA
- Monterey Park residents express concerns about Flock cameras, privacy at community meeting
- Flock Safety cameras spark privacy debate among Monterey Park residents amid ICE fears
- Monterey Park police host meeting to discuss Flock cameras – NBC Los Angeles
What you can do in El Monte
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 El Monte
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).