Flock & ALPR Cameras in King City, California
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around King City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of King City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside King City itself.
The rest sit in Pine Canyon (2).
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in King City
The readers mapped around King City break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Pine Canyon Road — 1 reader
- Cattlemen Road — 1 reader
- Broadway Circle — 1 reader
- Broadway Street — 1 reader
- Jolon Road — 1 reader
King City in the Monterey County picture
Monterey County has 303 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #264 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.3% nationally. That’s across 435,834 residents and 6,864 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching King City
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 King City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to King City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around King City
- 2 new license plate readers reported around King City, CA
- California activists urge city to dump Flock cameras over privacy, stalking concerns
- Coachella Mayor discusses clean drinking water program, debate over license plate readers in the city
- Coronado City Council Approves FY 20 - 21 Community Grants ; Approves License Plate Recognition Technology To Replace Parking Meters In Business Districts
What you can do in King City
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 King City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).