Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lawndale, California
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Lawndale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 36 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lawndale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Lawndale itself.
The rest sit in Torrance (10), Redondo Beach (8), Hawthorne (5), Manhattan Beach (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (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 Lawndale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lawndale
The readers mapped around Lawndale break down as 18 Motorola Solutions, 9 Flock Safety, 6 Motorola. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Hawthorne Boulevard — 7 readers
- Prairie Avenue — 5 readers
- Artesia Boulevard — 5 readers
- Marine Avenue — 5 readers
- Manhattan Beach Boulevard — 5 readers
- West 147th Street — 2 readers
- Inglewood Avenue — 2 readers
- Dow Avenue — 2 readers
- Redondo Beach Boulevard — 1 reader
- San Diego Freeway — 1 reader
- Grant Avenue — 1 reader
- South Ocean Gate Avenue — 1 reader
Lawndale 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 28 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Lawndale, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lawndale. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Lawndale
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 Lawndale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lawndale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lawndale
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Lawndale, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Lawndale, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lawndale, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Lawndale, CA
What you can do in Lawndale
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 Lawndale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).