Flock & ALPR Cameras in Laguna Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Laguna Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Laguna Beach
The readers mapped around Laguna Beach break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Pacific Coast Highway — 3 readers
- Nyes Place — 1 reader
- Park Avenue — 1 reader
- Thalia Street — 1 reader
- Orange County — 1 reader
- Hillcrest Drive — 1 reader
- Glenneyre Street — 1 reader
Laguna Beach CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Laguna Beach CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 128 other agencies.
Laguna 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 4 traffic.
What’s watching Laguna 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 Laguna Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Laguna Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Laguna 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 Laguna Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).