Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mira Mesa, California
Volunteers have reported 44 automated license plate readers in and around Mira Mesa — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 44 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mira Mesa, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Mira Mesa itself.
The rest sit in San Diego (44).
35 of them name an operator in the record: San Diego Police Department (35). 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 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mira Mesa
The readers mapped around Mira Mesa break down as 35 Ubicquia, Inc., 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: San Diego Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Mira Mesa Boulevard — 12 readers
- Miramar Road — 10 readers
- Westview Parkway — 5 readers
- Pomerado Road — 4 readers
- Kearny Mesa Road — 4 readers
- Camino Ruiz — 4 readers
- Clairemont Mesa Boulevard — 1 reader
- Hillery Drive — 1 reader
- Westonhill Drive — 1 reader
- Target Drwy — 1 reader
Mira Mesa in the San Diego County picture
San Diego County has 1,252 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #781 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,282,782 residents and 11,651 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 34 town, 7 traffic, 1 public. Operators named on the record: San Diego Police Department (35).
What’s watching Mira Mesa
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 Mira Mesa — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mira Mesa (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mira Mesa
- Kidnapping, assault suspect arrested with help from license plate reader in Mira Mesa
- From the Mayor's Desk: ALPR Technology Helps Close a Dangerous Robbery Case in Mira Mesa
What you can do in Mira Mesa
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 Mira Mesa
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).