Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lakewood, California
Volunteers have reported 79 automated license plate readers in and around Lakewood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 79 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lakewood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 70 of them sit inside Lakewood itself.
The rest sit in Long Beach (9).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 1 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 17 new license plate readers just reported around Lakewood, CA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Lakewood
Where the cameras are in Lakewood
The readers mapped around Lakewood break down as 50 Motorola Solutions, 25 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Del Amo Boulevard — 16 readers
- Candlewood Street — 9 readers
- Lakewood Boulevard — 8 readers
- East South Street — 7 readers
- Clark Avenue — 6 readers
- Bellflower Boulevard — 5 readers
- South Street — 3 readers
- Arbor Road — 3 readers
- Paramount Boulevard — 3 readers
- Hardwick Street — 2 readers
- Ashworth Street — 2 readers
- Woodruff Avenue — 2 readers
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Lakewood — all on the live map above.
Lakewood in the Los Angeles County picture
Los Angeles County has 2,677 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,106 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 9,848,406 residents and 18,753 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 57 traffic, 1 public.
Camera activity around Lakewood, last 30 days
21 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for Lakewood. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Lakewood
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 Lakewood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lakewood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lakewood
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Lakewood, CA
- 9 new license plate readers reported around Lakewood, CA
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Lakewood, CA
- 17 new license plate readers reported around Lakewood, CA
What you can do in Lakewood
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 Lakewood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).