Flock & ALPR Cameras in Malibu, California
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Malibu — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Malibu, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Malibu itself.
The rest sit in Unincorporated Santa Monica Mountains (3).
8 of them name an operator in the record: LASD (7), California State Parks (1). 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 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Malibu
The readers mapped around Malibu break down as 8 Motorola Solutions, 6 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: LASD, California State Parks. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Pacific Coast Highway — 2 readers
- Cross Creek Road — 1 reader
- Kanan Dume Road — 1 reader
- Latigo Canyon Road — 1 reader
- South Malibu Canyon Road — 1 reader
- Civic Center Way — 1 reader
- Decker Road — 1 reader
- Encinal Canyon Road — 1 reader
- Delaplane Road — 1 reader
- Wildlife Road — 1 reader
- Latigo Bay View — 1 reader
- Beach Access Road — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Malibu — all on the live map above.
Malibu 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 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: LASD (7), California State Parks (1).
Camera activity around Malibu, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Malibu. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Malibu
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 Malibu — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Malibu (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Malibu
- Malibu clarifies PCH Speed Camera Program as warning period nears — The Malibu Times
- On the agenda: Malibu meeting — License Plate Reader (May 14)
- On the agenda: Malibu meeting — Automated License Plate (Apr 9)
- On the agenda: Malibu meeting — facial recognition (Mar 23)
What you can do in Malibu
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 Malibu
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).