Flock & ALPR Cameras in Placentia, California
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Placentia — 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 Placentia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Placentia itself.
The rest sit in Fullerton (6), Brea (3), Orange (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Placentia
The readers mapped around Placentia break down as 44 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North State College Boulevard — 7 readers
- Folino Drive — 6 readers
- Langsdorf Drive — 4 readers
- Nutwood Avenue — 4 readers
- Kimberly Avenue — 3 readers
- Valencia Avenue — 3 readers
- West Orangethorpe Avenue — 2 readers
- Yorba Linda Boulevard — 2 readers
- Gymnasium Drive — 2 readers
- College Place — 2 readers
- North Commonwealth Avenue — 2 readers
- West Lincoln Avenue — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Placentia — all on the live map above.
Placentia CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Placentia CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 109 other agencies.
Placentia 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 45 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Placentia, last 30 days
5 newly reported, 6 removed in our hourly change log for Placentia. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Placentia
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 Placentia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Placentia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Placentia
- 28 license plate readers reported removed near Placentia, CA
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Placentia, CA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Placentia, CA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Placentia, CA
What you can do in Placentia
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 Placentia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).