Flock & ALPR Cameras in Los Altos, California
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Los Altos — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Los Altos, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Los Altos itself.
The rest sit in Palo Alto (10), Mountain View (3).
19 of them name an operator in the record: Los Altos Police Department (8), Palo Alto Police Department (5), Flock Safety (2), Prometheus Apartments (2), Van Buren Neighborhood Los Altos (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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No new reports near Los Altos in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Los Altos
The readers mapped around Los Altos break down as 23 Flock Safety, 1 Verkada Inc. Named operators in the reports: Los Altos Police Department, Palo Alto Police Department, Flock Safety, Prometheus Apartments, Van Buren Neighborhood Los Altos. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- San Antonio Road — 3 readers
- West Charleston Road — 2 readers
- North San Antonio Road — 2 readers
- Arastradero Road — 1 reader
- Los Altos Avenue — 1 reader
- East Charleston Road — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Jordan Avenue — 1 reader
- West El Camino Real — 1 reader
- Alma Street — 1 reader
- Middlefield Road — 1 reader
- Miller Avenue — 1 reader
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around Los Altos — all on the live map above.
Los Altos CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Los Altos CA PD runs 19 cameras of its own, has logged 116 plate-database searches, has captured 350,317 vehicle records. Its network connects to 152 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Belmont CA PD, Berkeley CA PD, Burlingame CA PD, Campbell CA PD, Capitola CA PD, Colma CA PD.
Los Altos 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 14 traffic, 1 street;traffic. Operators named on the record: Los Altos Police Department (8), Palo Alto Police Department (5), Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching Los Altos
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 — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Los Altos (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Los Altos
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Los Altos, CA
- Despite community pushback, Los Altos opts to extend Flock Safety contract | News | losaltosonline.com
- Despite community pushback , Los Altos opts to extend Flock Safety contract
- Los Altos Police Department doesn’t plan to stray from Flock | News | losaltosonline.com
What you can do in Los Altos
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 Los Altos
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).