Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mission District, California
Volunteers have reported 65 automated license plate readers in and around Mission District — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 65 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mission District, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Mission District itself.
The rest sit in San Francisco (65).
48 of them name an operator in the record: San Francisco Police Department (46), Lowe's (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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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mission District
The readers mapped around Mission District break down as 59 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 1 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: San Francisco Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in May 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 16th Street — 9 readers
- Mission Street — 6 readers
- Cesar Chavez Street — 5 readers
- Potrero Avenue — 4 readers
- 18th Street — 4 readers
- Bayshore Boulevard — 3 readers
- Folsom Street — 3 readers
- Shotwell Street — 3 readers
- Owens Street — 2 readers
- 17th Street — 2 readers
- 21st Street — 2 readers
- Pennsylvania Avenue — 2 readers
+ 15 more streets and roads mapped around Mission District — all on the live map above.
Mission District in the San Francisco County picture
San Francisco County has 443 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #471 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22% nationally. That’s across 836,321 residents and 371 road miles. By road density that is 1.20 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 60 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: San Francisco Police Department (46), Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Mission District, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mission District. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Mission District
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 Mission District — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mission District (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mission District
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mission District, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mission District, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mission District, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mission District, CA
What you can do in Mission District
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 Mission District
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).