Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hillsborough, California
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Hillsborough — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hillsborough, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Hillsborough itself.
The rest sit in Burlingame (4).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Burlingame Police Department (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hillsborough in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hillsborough
The readers mapped around Hillsborough break down as 16 Flock Safety, 1 CoStar. Named operators in the reports: Burlingame Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Golf Course Drive — 3 readers
- Summit Drive — 2 readers
- Hillside Drive — 2 readers
- Skyline Boulevard — 2 readers
- Trousdale Drive — 1 reader
- Margarita Avenue — 1 reader
- Ralston Avenue — 1 reader
- Canyon Road — 1 reader
- Butternut Drive — 1 reader
- Chateau Drive — 1 reader
- Carmelita Avenue — 1 reader
- San Raymundo Road — 1 reader
Hillsborough CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hillsborough CA PD runs 22 cameras of its own, has logged 71 plate-database searches, has captured 130,767 vehicle records. Its network connects to 325 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.
Hillsborough in the San Mateo County picture
San Mateo County has 628 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #164 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.6% nationally. That’s across 745,100 residents and 1,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.34 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Burlingame Police Department (2).
What’s watching Hillsborough
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 Hillsborough — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hillsborough (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hillsborough
- On the agenda: Hillsborough meeting — Automated License Plate (May 11)
- On the agenda: Hillsborough meeting — Flock camera (Feb 23)
What you can do in Hillsborough
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 Hillsborough
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).