Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hawthorne, California
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Hawthorne — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hawthorne, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Hawthorne itself.
The rest sit in Lawndale (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hawthorne
The readers mapped around Hawthorne break down as 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West 120th Street — 1 reader
- Prairie Avenue — 1 reader
- West 135th Street — 1 reader
Hawthorne CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hawthorne CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 11 other agencies.
Hawthorne 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 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Hawthorne, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hawthorne. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.
What’s watching Hawthorne
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 Hawthorne — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hawthorne (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hawthorne
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 Hawthorne
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).