Flock & ALPR Cameras in Imperial Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 133 automated license plate readers in and around Imperial Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 133 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Imperial Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Imperial Beach itself.
The rest sit in San Diego (110), Chula Vista (19), Coronado (4).
105 of them name an operator in the record: San Diego Police Department (93), Chula Vista Police Department (6), The Home Depot (3), Coronado Police Department (2), Customs and Border Protection (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Imperial Beach
The readers mapped around Imperial Beach break down as 88 Ubicquia, Inc., 36 Flock Safety, 7 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: San Diego Police Department, Chula Vista Police Department, The Home Depot, Coronado Police Department, Customs and Border Protection. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West San Ysidro Boulevard — 14 readers
- Camino de la Plaza — 13 readers
- Beyer Boulevard — 9 readers
- Main Street — 7 readers
- Coronado Avenue — 6 readers
- Dairy Mart Road — 6 readers
- Picador Boulevard — 6 readers
- Calle Primera — 6 readers
- Palm Avenue — 5 readers
- Saturn Boulevard — 4 readers
- East San Ysidro Boulevard — 4 readers
- Dennery Road — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Imperial Beach — all on the live map above.
Imperial Beach in the San Diego County picture
San Diego County has 1,252 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #781 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,282,782 residents and 11,651 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 88 town, 18 traffic, 15 public. Operators named on the record: San Diego Police Department (93), Chula Vista Police Department (6), The Home Depot (3).
Camera activity around Imperial Beach, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Imperial Beach. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Imperial 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 Imperial Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Imperial Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Imperial Beach
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Imperial Beach, CA
- 9 new license plate readers reported around Imperial Beach, CA
- Automated license plate readers and public surveillance cameras are coming to Imperial Beach
What you can do in Imperial 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 Imperial Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).