Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mountain View, California
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Mountain View — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Deactivated
Mountain View is on the record here. The Mountain View Police Chief decided to disable their Flock cameras after noticing their cameras had been accessed by out-of-state and federal agencies, a violation of California law.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mountain View, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Mountain View itself.
The rest sit in Los Altos (4).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Los Altos Police Department (4). 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 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mountain View
The readers mapped around Mountain View break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Los Altos Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- Grant Road — 1 reader
- Cuesta Drive — 1 reader
- North El Monte Avenue — 1 reader
- North Springer Road — 1 reader
Mountain View CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mountain View CA PD runs 22 cameras of its own. Its network connects to 1 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Mountain View in the Contra Costa County picture
Contra Costa County has 436 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #803 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,161,458 residents and 4,683 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Los Altos Police Department (4).
Camera activity around Mountain View, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Mountain View. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Mountain View
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 Mountain View — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mountain View (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mountain View
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Mountain View, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mountain View, CA
- CAIR-SFBA Welcomes Mountain View’s Suspension of Flock Safety ALPR Cameras Over Unauthorized Data Access
- As California Cities Grow Wary of Flock Safety Cameras, Mountain View Shuts Its Off
What you can do in Mountain View
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 Mountain View
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).