Flock & ALPR Cameras in Midway City, California
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Midway City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 34 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Midway City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Midway City itself.
The rest sit in Westminster (15), Huntington Beach (14), Garden Grove (5).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Huntington Beach Police Department (8), Garden Grove Police Department (2), Westminster Police Department (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 Midway City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Midway City
The readers mapped around Midway City break down as 31 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Huntington Beach Police Department, Westminster Police Department, Garden Grove Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Magnolia Street — 6 readers
- Goldenwest Street — 3 readers
- Newland Street — 3 readers
- I 405 EXPR — 2 readers
- Beach Boulevard — 2 readers
- Warner Avenue — 2 readers
- Bolsa Avenue — 2 readers
- Westminster Boulevard — 2 readers
- Parkside Lane — 1 reader
- Bella Terra — 1 reader
- Center Drive — 1 reader
- Ash Lane — 1 reader
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around Midway City — all on the live map above.
Midway City in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 1,223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #764 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,164,063 residents and 6,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 34 traffic. Operators named on the record: Huntington Beach Police Department (8), Westminster Police Department (2), Garden Grove Police Department (2).
What’s watching Midway City
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 Midway City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Midway City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Midway City
What you can do in Midway City
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 Midway City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).