Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pacifica, California
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Pacifica — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pacifica, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Pacifica itself.
The rest sit in San Bruno (10).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Pacifica in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Pacifica
The readers mapped around Pacifica break down as 12 Flock Safety, 5 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Skyline Boulevard — 3 readers
- College Loop Drive — 3 readers
- Cypress Lane — 2 readers
- Reina del Mar Avenue — 1 reader
- Fassler Avenue — 1 reader
- Linda Mar Boulevard — 1 reader
- Francisco Boulevard — 1 reader
- Sharp Park Road — 1 reader
- West Manor Drive — 1 reader
- Cabrillo Highway — 1 reader
- College Drive — 1 reader
- Berkshire Drive — 1 reader
Pacifica CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pacifica CA PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has logged 89 plate-database searches, has captured 214,464 vehicle records. Its network connects to 302 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD, Arcadia CA PD.
Pacifica in the San Mateo County picture
San Mateo County has 628 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #164 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.6% nationally. That’s across 745,100 residents and 1,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.34 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
What’s watching Pacifica
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 Pacifica — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pacifica (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pacifica
- Pacifica's Flock cameras face backlash as city contract nears automatic renewal
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Pacifica, CA
- Pacifica approves license plate readers
What you can do in Pacifica
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 Pacifica
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).