Flock & ALPR Cameras in La Jolla, California
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around La Jolla — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 26 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of La Jolla, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside La Jolla itself.
The rest sit in San Diego (26).
18 of them name an operator in the record: San Diego Police Department (18). 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 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in La Jolla
The readers mapped around La Jolla break down as 18 Ubicquia, Inc., 7 Flock Safety, 1 Rekor. Named operators in the reports: San Diego Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Mission Bay Drive — 4 readers
- Mission Boulevard — 3 readers
- Grand Avenue — 3 readers
- Caminito Franche — 3 readers
- Garnet Avenue — 2 readers
- East Mission Bay Drive — 1 reader
- Luna Avenue — 1 reader
- Clairemont Drive — 1 reader
- Balboa Avenue — 1 reader
- Torrey Pines Road — 1 reader
- La Jolla Parkway — 1 reader
- West Mission Bay Drive — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around La Jolla — all on the live map above.
La Jolla 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 18 town, 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: San Diego Police Department (18).
Camera activity around La Jolla, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for La Jolla. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching La Jolla
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 La Jolla — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to La Jolla (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around La Jolla
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What you can do in La Jolla
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 La Jolla
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).