Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pismo Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Pismo Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pismo Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Pismo Beach itself.
The rest sit in Shell Beach (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Pismo Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 12:37 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Pismo Beach
The readers mapped around Pismo Beach break down as 15 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Price Street — 3 readers
- Mattie Road — 2 readers
- Bello Street — 1 reader
- Club Drive — 1 reader
- South Dolliver Street — 1 reader
- Pomeroy Avenue — 1 reader
- Five Cities Drive — 1 reader
- Dolliver Street — 1 reader
- Lemoore Street — 1 reader
- Stimson Avenue — 1 reader
- Shell Beach Road — 1 reader
- James Way — 1 reader
Pismo Beach in the San Luis Obispo County picture
San Luis Obispo County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #691 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 281,486 residents and 7,034 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 32.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic.
What’s watching Pismo Beach
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 Pismo Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pismo Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pismo Beach
- Pismo Beach man arrested for damaging Flock Safety cameras in Monterey County, deputies say
- A Truck Driver Rammed Down Three License Plate Cameras in Rural California. Flock Safety Barely Noticed
- Pismo Beach man accused of vandalizing Flock cameras
- Pismo Beach man arrested for vandalizing Flock cameras in Monterey County
What you can do in Pismo Beach
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 Pismo Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).