Flock & ALPR Cameras in Huntington Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Huntington Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Huntington Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Huntington Beach
The readers mapped around Huntington Beach break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Huntington Beach Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Pacific View Avenue — 1 reader
- Huntington Beach Trail — 1 reader
- Pacific Coast Highway — 1 reader
- Olive Avenue — 1 reader
- Walnut Avenue — 1 reader
- 1st Street — 1 reader
- Adams Avenue — 1 reader
Huntington Beach CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Huntington Beach CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 107 other agencies.
Huntington Beach in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 1,223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #764 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,164,063 residents and 6,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Huntington Beach Police Department (3).
Camera activity around Huntington Beach, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Huntington Beach. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Huntington 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 Huntington Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Huntington Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Huntington Beach
- Uptick in stingrays in Huntington Beach due to warmer ocean temps
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Huntington Beach, CA
- Why were surveillance cameras installed in Huntington Beach most iconic Latino neighborhood ?
What you can do in Huntington 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 Huntington Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).