Flock & ALPR Cameras in Millbrae, California
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Millbrae — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Millbrae, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Millbrae itself.
The rest sit in Burlingame (5).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Burlingame Police Department (4), Flock Safety (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 Millbrae in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Millbrae
The readers mapped around Millbrae break down as 17 Flock Safety, 5 of unrecorded make, 1 CoStar. Named operators in the reports: Burlingame Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- El Camino Real — 4 readers
- East Millbrae Avenue — 3 readers
- Rollins Road — 2 readers
- Millbrae Avenue — 2 readers
- Hillcrest Boulevard — 2 readers
- Broadway — 2 readers
- California Drive — 1 reader
- South Broadway — 1 reader
- Larkspur Drive — 1 reader
- Skyline Boulevard — 1 reader
- Richmond Drive — 1 reader
- Old Bayshore Highway — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Millbrae — all on the live map above.
Millbrae 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 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Burlingame Police Department (4), Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching Millbrae
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 Millbrae — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Millbrae (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Millbrae
- License plate reader helps find suspect who robbed car in Millbrae
- Automated License Plate Reader helps nab alleged rental car thief in Millbrae
- License plate readers assist in attempted murder suspect arrest in Millbrae
- License plate reader helps nab attempted homicide suspect in Millbrae
What you can do in Millbrae
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 Millbrae
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).