Flock & ALPR Cameras in Manhattan Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Manhattan Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Manhattan Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Manhattan Beach itself.
The rest sit in El Segundo (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Manhattan Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:58 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Manhattan Beach
The readers mapped around Manhattan Beach break down as 2 of unrecorded make. Every report here dates to May 2026.
- Rosecrans Avenue — 2 readers
Manhattan 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.
What’s watching Manhattan 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 Manhattan Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Manhattan Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Manhattan Beach
- Candidate Conversations: License Plate Readers & Speed Cameras | Manhattan Beach CA - Manhattan Beach News
- Manhattan Beach Planning Add Cameras License Plate Readers City
What you can do in Manhattan 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 Manhattan Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).