Flock & ALPR Cameras in Laguna Woods, California
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Laguna Woods — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Laguna Woods, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Laguna Woods itself.
The rest sit in Laguna Hills (9), Aliso Viejo (2), Irvine (2).
4 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (2), Irvine Police Department (1), Orange County Sheriff (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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No new reports near Laguna Woods in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:58 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Laguna Woods
The readers mapped around Laguna Woods break down as 20 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, Orange County Sheriff, Irvine Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Moulton Parkway — 4 readers
- El Toro Road — 3 readers
- San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor — 2 readers
- Lake Forest Drive — 2 readers
- Calle Sonora — 2 readers
- Irvine Center Drive — 1 reader
- Calle Aragon — 1 reader
- Del Lago Drive — 1 reader
- Mill Creek Drive — 1 reader
- Santa Maria Avenue — 1 reader
- Triton Way — 1 reader
- Santa Vittoria Drive — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Laguna Woods — all on the live map above.
Laguna Woods 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 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (2), Orange County Sheriff (1), Irvine Police Department (1).
What’s watching Laguna Woods
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 Woods — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Laguna Woods (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 Woods
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 Woods
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).