Flock & ALPR Cameras in Garden Grove, California
Volunteers have reported 79 automated license plate readers in and around Garden Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 79 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Garden Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 70 of them sit inside Garden Grove itself.
The rest sit in Anaheim (5), Santa Ana (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Garden Grove
The readers mapped around Garden Grove break down as 73 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Harbor Boulevard — 9 readers
- Euclid Street — 9 readers
- Garden Grove Boulevard — 9 readers
- West Chapman Avenue — 8 readers
- Brookhurst Street — 7 readers
- Haster Street — 5 readers
- Trask Avenue — 5 readers
- Lampson Avenue — 3 readers
- Hyatt — 2 readers
- Resort Way — 2 readers
- Buaro Street — 2 readers
- Westminster Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 15 more streets and roads mapped around Garden Grove — all on the live map above.
Garden Grove CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Garden Grove CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 119 other agencies.
Garden Grove 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 44 traffic.
Camera activity around Garden Grove, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for Garden Grove. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Garden Grove
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 Garden Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Garden Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Garden Grove
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Garden Grove, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Garden Grove, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Garden Grove, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Garden Grove, CA
What you can do in Garden Grove
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 Garden Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).