Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lemon Grove, California
Volunteers have reported 29 automated license plate readers in and around Lemon Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lemon Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Lemon Grove itself.
The rest sit in San Diego (21), La Mesa (6).
21 of them name an operator in the record: San Diego Police Department (19), The Home Depot (2). 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 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lemon Grove
The readers mapped around Lemon Grove break down as 18 Ubicquia, Inc., 7 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: San Diego Police Department, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- University Avenue — 5 readers
- Imperial Avenue — 3 readers
- College Grove Way — 2 readers
- Euclid Avenue — 2 readers
- Chollas Parkway — 2 readers
- Federal Boulevard — 2 readers
- Bayview Heights Drive — 2 readers
- Kelton Road — 2 readers
- Broadway — 2 readers
- Massachusetts Avenue — 2 readers
- Old Memory Lane — 1 reader
- El Cajon Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Lemon Grove — all on the live map above.
Lemon Grove 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, 6 traffic, 1 public. Operators named on the record: San Diego Police Department (19), The Home Depot (2).
Camera activity around Lemon Grove, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lemon Grove. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.
What’s watching Lemon Grove
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 Lemon Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lemon Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lemon Grove
- 2 arrested for allegedly switching ATM cards after distracting customers at banks in Lemon Grove and other locations
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lemon Grove, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lemon Grove, CA
What you can do in Lemon Grove
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 Lemon Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).