Flock & ALPR Cameras in Quail Hill, California
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Quail Hill — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Quail Hill, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Quail Hill itself.
The rest sit in Irvine (5).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Irvine Police Department (5). 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 Quail Hill in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Quail Hill
The readers mapped around Quail Hill break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Irvine Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jun 2025.
- Quail Hill Parkway — 3 readers
- Laguna Canyon Road — 1 reader
- Lake Forest Drive — 1 reader
Quail Hill 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 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Irvine Police Department (5).
What’s watching Quail Hill
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 Quail Hill — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Quail Hill (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Quail Hill
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 Quail Hill
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).