Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fountain Valley, California
Volunteers have reported 52 automated license plate readers in and around Fountain Valley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 52 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fountain Valley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Fountain Valley itself.
The rest sit in Costa Mesa (19), Huntington Beach (14), Santa Ana (5), Westminster (1).
11 of them name an operator in the record: Fountain Valley Police Department (4), Huntington Beach Police Department (4), Costa Mesa Police Department (2), Orange County Transportation Authority (1). 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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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fountain Valley
The readers mapped around Fountain Valley break down as 38 Flock Safety, 6 of unrecorded make, 4 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Huntington Beach Police Department, Fountain Valley Police Department, Costa Mesa Police Department, Orange County Transportation Authority. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Warner Avenue — 7 readers
- I 405 EXPR — 6 readers
- Magnolia Street — 5 readers
- Harbor Boulevard — 4 readers
- Brookhurst Street — 4 readers
- West Sunflower Avenue — 3 readers
- West MacArthur Boulevard — 3 readers
- Costa Mesa — 2 readers
- Slater Avenue — 2 readers
- West Lake Center Drive — 2 readers
- Bear Street — 1 reader
- Cypress Avenue — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Fountain Valley — all on the live map above.
Fountain Valley CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fountain Valley CA PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has logged 125 plate-database searches, has captured 708,048 vehicle records. Its network connects to 297 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Albany CA PD, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD, Arcadia CA PD, Avenal CA PD, Azusa CA PD.
Fountain Valley 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 43 traffic. Operators named on the record: Huntington Beach Police Department (4), Fountain Valley Police Department (4), Costa Mesa Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Fountain Valley, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fountain Valley. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Fountain Valley
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 Fountain Valley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fountain Valley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fountain Valley
- On the agenda: Fountain Valley meeting — AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE (Feb 3)
- Fountain Valley , Calif ., Adds to License Plate Scanner Lineup
- Fountain Valley adding light - mounted license plate scanner
What you can do in Fountain Valley
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 Fountain Valley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).