Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gardena, California
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Gardena — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gardena, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Gardena itself.
The rest sit in Torrance (2), Los Angeles (1).
11 of them name an operator in the record: City of Torrance (10), Los Angeles County Metropolitan 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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No new reports near Gardena in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Gardena
The readers mapped around Gardena break down as 10 Motorola Solutions, 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: City of Torrance, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Western Avenue — 6 readers
- West Artesia Boulevard — 6 readers
- Harbor Transitway — 1 reader
Gardena 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 10 street, 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: City of Torrance (10), Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (1).
Camera activity around Gardena, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Gardena. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Gardena
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 Gardena — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gardena (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gardena
What you can do in Gardena
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 Gardena
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).