Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pacific Palisades, California
Volunteers have reported 32 automated license plate readers in and around Pacific Palisades — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 37 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pacific Palisades, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Pacific Palisades itself.
The rest sit in Los Angeles (32), Malibu (2), Santa Monica (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: LASD (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 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 Palisades 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.
📷 7 new license plate readers just reported around Pacific Palisades, CA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #PacificPalisades
Where the cameras are in Pacific Palisades
The readers mapped around Pacific Palisades break down as 35 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: LASD. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Sunset Boulevard — 8 readers
- Pacific Coast Highway — 7 readers
- Temescal Canyon Road — 3 readers
- Palisades Drive — 3 readers
- Chautauqua Boulevard — 2 readers
- El Medio Avenue — 2 readers
- Swarthmore Avenue — 2 readers
- Mesa Road — 1 reader
- Allenford Avenue — 1 reader
- Coastline Drive — 1 reader
- Roosevelt Tunnel — 1 reader
- Entrada Drive — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Pacific Palisades — all on the live map above.
Pacific Palisades in the Los Angeles County picture
Los Angeles County has 2,677 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,106 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 9,848,406 residents and 18,753 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 28 traffic. Operators named on the record: LASD (2).
Camera activity around Pacific Palisades, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Pacific Palisades. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Pacific Palisades
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 Palisades — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pacific Palisades (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pacific Palisades
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Pacific Palisades, CA
- 7 new license plate readers reported around Pacific Palisades, CA
What you can do in Pacific Palisades
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 Palisades
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).