Flock & ALPR Cameras in Menlo Park, California
Volunteers have reported 35 automated license plate readers in and around Menlo Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 35 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Menlo Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Menlo Park itself.
The rest sit in Palo Alto (16), Atherton (8).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Atherton Police Department (4), Menlo Park Police Department (2), Flock Safety (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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No new reports near Menlo Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Menlo Park
The readers mapped around Menlo Park break down as 34 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Atherton Police Department, Menlo Park Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- El Camino Real — 5 readers
- Middlefield Road — 3 readers
- Orchard Lane — 3 readers
- Quarry Road — 2 readers
- London Plane Way — 2 readers
- Stanford Shopping Center — 2 readers
- Oak Grove Avenue — 2 readers
- Pear Lane — 1 reader
- Sweet Olive Way — 1 reader
- Plum Lane — 1 reader
- Sand Hill Road — 1 reader
- Willow Road — 1 reader
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Menlo Park — all on the live map above.
Menlo Park CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Menlo Park CA PD runs 32 cameras of its own, has logged 102 plate-database searches, has captured 774,761 vehicle records. Its network connects to 260 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD.
Menlo Park in the San Mateo County picture
San Mateo County has 628 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #164 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.6% nationally. That’s across 745,100 residents and 1,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.34 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Atherton Police Department (4), Menlo Park Police Department (2), Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Menlo Park
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 Menlo Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Menlo Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Menlo Park
- Menlo Park Joins Growing List of Bay Area Cities Reining in Flock Cameras
- Menlo Park overhauls license plate reader sharing after discovering more improper searches
- Menlo Park police broke state law, shared license plate data out of state
- Menlo Park City Council moves forward with developing an automatic license plate reader program
What you can do in Menlo Park
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 Menlo Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).