Flock & ALPR Cameras in Newport Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Newport Beach — 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 Newport Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Newport Beach itself.
The rest sit in Huntington Beach (2).
15 of them name an operator in the record: Newport Beach Police Department (13), Huntington Beach Police Department (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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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Newport Beach
The readers mapped around Newport Beach break down as 23 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Newport Beach Police Department, Huntington Beach Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Pacific Coast Highway — 3 readers
- West Balboa Boulevard — 3 readers
- West Coast Highway — 2 readers
- Newport Boulevard — 2 readers
- Brookhurst Street — 1 reader
- East Balboa Boulevard — 1 reader
- Palm Street — 1 reader
- 32nd Street — 1 reader
- Superior Avenue — 1 reader
- Hospital Road — 1 reader
- Dover Drive — 1 reader
- West 16th Street — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Newport Beach — all on the live map above.
Newport Beach CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Newport Beach CA PD runs 81 cameras of its own, has logged 877 plate-database searches, has captured 1,363,480 vehicle records. Its network connects to 322 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alhambra CA PD, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD, Arcadia CA PD, Atwater CA PD, Auburn CA PD.
Newport Beach in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 1,223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #764 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,164,063 residents and 6,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 21 traffic, 1 public. Operators named on the record: Newport Beach Police Department (13), Huntington Beach Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Newport Beach, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Newport Beach. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Newport Beach
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 Newport Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Newport Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
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What you can do in Newport Beach
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 Newport Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).