Flock & ALPR Cameras in Los Angeles, California
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Los Angeles — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Los Angeles
The readers mapped around Los Angeles break down as 11 Flock Safety, 2 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, California State Parks, Los Angeles Union Station. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Wilshire Boulevard — 3 readers
- North Spring Street — 2 readers
- Pick Up/Drop Off Lane — 2 readers
- South Spring Street — 2 readers
- Albany Street — 2 readers
- Shatto Street — 1 reader
- Mateo Street — 1 reader
Los Angeles CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Los Angeles CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 122 other agencies.
Los Angeles 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 9 traffic, 2 parking. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (4), California State Parks (2), Los Angeles Union Station (2).
Camera activity around Los Angeles, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Los Angeles. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Los Angeles
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 Angeles — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Los Angeles (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Los Angeles
- Los Angeles City Council Delays Axon License Plate Reader Pilot Over Privacy Concerns
- Los Angeles Delays LAPD License Plate Reader Pilot Program Over Privacy Concerns
- More advanced license plate readers are coming to city of Los Angeles
- Axon Lands $235 Million Los Angeles Deal as Convertible Debt and Margin Pressure Weigh on the Stock
What you can do in Los Angeles
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 Angeles
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).