Flock & ALPR Cameras in Monterey, California
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Monterey — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Monterey in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:23 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Monterey
The readers mapped around Monterey break down as 20 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Monterey Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Lighthouse Avenue — 3 readers
- Del Monte Avenue — 3 readers
- Pacific Street — 2 readers
- Soledad Drive — 2 readers
- Munras Avenue — 2 readers
- Fremont Street — 2 readers
- Municipal Wharf 2 — 1 reader
- Mar Vista Drive — 1 reader
- Aguajito Road — 1 reader
- Camino Aguajito — 1 reader
- Old Golf Course Road — 1 reader
- Polk Street — 1 reader
Monterey CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Monterey CA PD runs 35 cameras of its own, has logged 141 plate-database searches, has captured 434,401 vehicle records. Its network connects to 130 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Cal Fire, California State Parks, Carmel CA PD, Marina CA PD, Monterey County CA SO, Monterey County District Attorney's Office, Oakland CA PD, Pacific Grove CA PD.
Monterey in the Monterey County picture
Monterey County has 303 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #264 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.3% nationally. That’s across 435,834 residents and 6,864 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic. Operators named on the record: Monterey Police Department (7).
What’s watching Monterey
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 Monterey — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Monterey (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Monterey
- On the agenda: Monterey Board of Supervisors — Flock Safety (Sep 22)
- Salinas protestors say Flock camera expansion in Monterey County is an 'invasion of privacy'
- On the agenda: Monterey Board of Supervisors — Flock Safety (Aug 25)
- California Man Arrested in Monterey County for Alleged Vandalism of Flock Cameras
What you can do in Monterey
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 Monterey
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).