Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pacific Grove, California
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Pacific Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pacific Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Pacific Grove itself.
The rest sit in Monterey (5).
13 of them name an operator in the record: Pacific Grove Police Department (11), Pebble Beach Company (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Pacific Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Pacific Grove
The readers mapped around Pacific Grove break down as 17 Flock Safety, 2 Avigilon, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Pacific Grove Police Department, Pebble Beach Company. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2021; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- David Avenue — 3 readers
- 17 Mile Drive — 2 readers
- Lighthouse Avenue — 2 readers
- Presidio Boulevard — 2 readers
- Pine Avenue — 1 reader
- Central Avenue — 1 reader
- Monterey Bay Coastal Trail — 1 reader
- Eardley Avenue — 1 reader
- Prescott Avenue — 1 reader
- Sunset Drive — 1 reader
- Forest Avenue — 1 reader
- Cannery Row — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Pacific Grove — all on the live map above.
Pacific Grove CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pacific Grove CA PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 48 plate-database searches, has captured 195,547 vehicle records. Its network connects to 112 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: California Highway Patrol, California State Parks, Capitola CA PD, Carmel CA PD, Marina CA PD, Monterey CA PD, Monterey County CA SO, Monterey County District Attorney's Office.
Pacific Grove 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: Pacific Grove Police Department (11), Pebble Beach Company (2).
Camera activity around Pacific Grove, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Pacific Grove. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Pacific Grove
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 Pacific Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pacific Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Pacific Grove
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 Pacific Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).