Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grover Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 30 automated license plate readers in and around Grover Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 30 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Grover Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Grover Beach itself.
The rest sit in Pismo Beach (9), Arroyo Grande (2), Oceano (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Grover Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Grover Beach
The readers mapped around Grover Beach break down as 20 Flock Safety, 10 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Grand Avenue — 5 readers
- El Camino Real — 3 readers
- South Oak Park Boulevard — 2 readers
- South 13th Street — 2 readers
- Five Cities Drive — 2 readers
- North 4th Street — 2 readers
- James Way — 2 readers
- Newport Avenue — 1 reader
- North Oak Park Boulevard — 1 reader
- North 12th Street — 1 reader
- Harding Drive — 1 reader
- Mentone Avenue — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Grover Beach — all on the live map above.
Grover Beach CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Grover Beach CA PD runs 17 cameras of its own, has logged 114 plate-database searches, has captured 177,128 vehicle records. Its network connects to 322 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD.
Grover Beach in the San Luis Obispo County picture
San Luis Obispo County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #691 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 281,486 residents and 7,034 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 32.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 28 traffic.
Camera activity around Grover Beach, last 30 days
5 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Grover Beach. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Grover Beach
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 Grover Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grover Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Grover Beach
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What you can do in Grover Beach
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 Grover Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).