Flock & ALPR Cameras in Foothill Ranch, California
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Foothill Ranch — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 26 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Foothill Ranch, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Foothill Ranch itself.
The rest sit in Lake Forest (23), Irvine (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Angle was recently turned. Unknown if intentional by Flock, or an adversary of. (1), Irvine Police Department (1), The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Foothill Ranch in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 02:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Foothill Ranch
The readers mapped around Foothill Ranch break down as 18 Flock Safety, 8 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Irvine Police Department, The Home Depot, Angle was recently turned. Unknown if intentional by Flock, or an adversary of.. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in May 2026.
- Alton Parkway — 7 readers
- Foothill Transportation Corridor — 3 readers
- Rancho Parkway — 3 readers
- Bake Parkway — 2 readers
- Portola Parkway — 2 readers
- Emi Way — 2 readers
- Lopala — 2 readers
- Sugarwood — 1 reader
- Corridor Center — 1 reader
- Regency Lane — 1 reader
- Greenleaf — 1 reader
- Serrano Creek Trail — 1 reader
Foothill Ranch 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 24 traffic, 2 street. Operators named on the record: Irvine Police Department (1), The Home Depot (1), Angle was recently turned. Unknown if intentional by Flock, or an adversary of. (1).
What’s watching Foothill Ranch
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 Foothill Ranch — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Foothill Ranch (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Foothill Ranch
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 Foothill Ranch
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).