Flock & ALPR Cameras in Los Altos Hills, California
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Los Altos Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Los Altos Hills is on the record here. The Los Altos Hills City Council voted to terminate their contract with Flock Safety (2:45:02) following resident concerns and a lack of evidence that the Flock system was effective at reducing crime.
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- Feb 10, 2026 On the agenda: Los Altos Hills meeting — FLOCK Safety (Feb 10)
- Jan 15, 2026 On the agenda: Los Altos Hills meeting — FLOCK Safety (Jan 15)
- Jan 14, 2026 On the agenda: Los Altos Hills meeting — Flock Safety (Jan 14)
- Feb 15, 2018 On the agenda: Los Altos Hills City Council Regular Meeting - Feb 15, 2018 — License Plate Reader (Feb 15)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Los Altos Hills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 05:44 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Los Altos Hills
The readers mapped around Los Altos Hills break down as 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Liddicoat Drive — 1 reader
- Amherst Court — 1 reader
- Elena Road — 1 reader
Los Altos Hills in the Santa Clara County picture
Santa Clara County has 1,096 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #406 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19% nationally. That’s across 1,903,297 residents and 5,143 road miles. By road density that is 0.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching Los Altos Hills
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 Los Altos Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Los Altos Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Los Altos Hills
- On the agenda: Los Altos Hills meeting — FLOCK Safety (Feb 10)
- Los Altos Hills to remove ALPR cameras | News | losaltosonline.com
- Los Altos Hills to remove ALPR cameras
- Los Gatos officials debate license plate readers, after Santa Cruz, Los Altos Hills jettison Flock Safety service
What you can do in Los Altos Hills
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.
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Cameras near Los Altos Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).