Flock & ALPR Cameras in Orange, California
Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Orange — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 38 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Orange, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 33 of them sit inside Orange itself.
The rest sit in Anaheim (5).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Simon Property Group (1). 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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No new reports near Orange in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Orange
The readers mapped around Orange break down as 38 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Simon Property Group. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Jacaranda Street — 5 readers
- West Chapman Avenue — 4 readers
- West Katella Avenue — 3 readers
- City Boulevard West — 3 readers
- East Chapman Avenue — 2 readers
- West Metropolitan Drive — 2 readers
- North Glassell Street — 1 reader
- North Xtra Way — 1 reader
- The City Drive South — 1 reader
- Lewis Street — 1 reader
- East Katella Avenue — 1 reader
- West Taft Avenue — 1 reader
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Orange — all on the live map above.
Orange CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Orange CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 134 other agencies.
Orange 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 18 traffic. Operators named on the record: Simon Property Group (1).
Camera activity around Orange, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Orange. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Orange
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 Orange — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Orange (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Orange
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Orange, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Orange, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Orange, CA
- California cops tracked protesters using Orange County Sheriff's flock system
What you can do in Orange
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 Orange
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).