Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hermosa Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Hermosa Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hermosa Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Hermosa Beach itself.
The rest sit in Manhattan Beach (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hermosa Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hermosa Beach
The readers mapped around Hermosa Beach break down as 8 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Artesia Boulevard — 3 readers
- Aviation Boulevard — 2 readers
- Hermosa Avenue — 2 readers
- Pacific Coast Highway — 1 reader
- 15th Street — 1 reader
- Monterey Boulevard — 1 reader
- 16th Street — 1 reader
- South Sepulveda Boulevard — 1 reader
Hermosa Beach PD CA and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hermosa Beach PD CA appears in the sharing network with connections to 127 other agencies.
Hermosa Beach 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 traffic.
Camera activity around Hermosa Beach, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hermosa Beach. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Hermosa 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 Hermosa Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hermosa Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hermosa Beach
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hermosa Beach, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hermosa Beach, CA
What you can do in Hermosa 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 Hermosa Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).