Flock & ALPR Cameras in Noe Valley, California
Volunteers have reported 47 automated license plate readers in and around Noe Valley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 47 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Noe Valley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Noe Valley itself.
The rest sit in San Francisco (47).
34 of them name an operator in the record: San Francisco Police Department (34). 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 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Noe Valley
The readers mapped around Noe Valley break down as 42 Flock Safety, 1 Bosch Security Systems, 1 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: San Francisco Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- San Jose Avenue — 5 readers
- Twin Peaks Boulevard — 5 readers
- Market Street — 2 readers
- Bernal Cut Path — 2 readers
- Mission Street — 2 readers
- Church Street — 2 readers
- Portola Drive — 2 readers
- Monterey Boulevard — 2 readers
- Kezar Drive — 2 readers
- San Francisco — 1 reader
- 29th Street — 1 reader
- Congdon Street — 1 reader
+ 17 more streets and roads mapped around Noe Valley — all on the live map above.
Noe Valley 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 39 traffic. Operators named on the record: San Francisco Police Department (34).
Camera activity around Noe Valley, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Noe Valley. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Noe Valley
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 Noe Valley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Noe Valley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Noe Valley
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Noe Valley, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Noe Valley, CA
What you can do in Noe Valley
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.
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Cameras near Noe Valley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).