Flock & ALPR Cameras in Long Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Long Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Long Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Long Beach
The readers mapped around Long Beach break down as 8 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Anaheim Street — 4 readers
- East Anaheim Street — 2 readers
- Pico Avenue — 1 reader
- East 14th Street — 1 reader
Long Beach 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 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Long Beach, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Long Beach. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Long 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 Long Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Long Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Long Beach
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Long Beach, CA
- Stingrays are stinging more Southern Californians. Here's why • Long Beach Post News
- California eases mandatory prison sentences, restricts facial recognition software • Long Beach Post News
- Stingray incidents surge along Southern California beaches
What you can do in Long 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 Long Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).