Flock & ALPR Cameras in Poway, California
Volunteers have reported 57 automated license plate readers in and around Poway — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 57 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Poway, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 48 of them sit inside Poway itself.
The rest sit in San Diego (9).
16 of them name an operator in the record: San Diego Sheriff Department (8), San Diego Police Department (4), The Home Depot (3), Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Poway in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Poway
The readers mapped around Poway break down as 63 Flock Safety, 4 Ubicquia, Inc., 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: San Diego Sheriff Department, San Diego Police Department, The Home Depot, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Espola Road — 17 readers
- Poway Road — 9 readers
- Route 67 — 4 readers
- Carmel Mountain Road — 3 readers
- Gregg Street — 3 readers
- Highland Ranch Road — 3 readers
- Scripps Poway Parkway — 2 readers
- Pomerado Road — 2 readers
- Pomerado Trail — 2 readers
- World Trade Drive — 2 readers
- Valle Verde Road — 2 readers
- Lake Poway Road — 2 readers
+ 16 more streets and roads mapped around Poway — all on the live map above.
Poway in the San Diego County picture
San Diego County has 1,252 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #781 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,282,782 residents and 11,651 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 55 traffic, 9 public, 4 town. Operators named on the record: San Diego Sheriff Department (8), San Diego Police Department (4), The Home Depot (3).
What’s watching Poway
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 Poway — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Poway (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Poway
- 11 license plate readers reported removed near Poway, CA
- 32 license plate readers reported removed near Poway, CA
What you can do in Poway
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 Poway
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).