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Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Anselmo, California

Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around San Anselmo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of San Anselmo, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside San Anselmo itself.

The rest sit in San Rafael (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#690
of 898 California cities tracked
0.1%
of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 4 reported cameras around San Anselmo, California
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near San Anselmo

No new reports near San Anselmo in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in San Anselmo

The readers mapped around San Anselmo break down as 4 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Mar 2026.

  • Fourth Street — 2 readers
  • Red Hill Avenue — 1 reader
  • Sir Francis Drake Boulevard — 1 reader

San Anselmo in the Marin County picture

Marin County has 99 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #777 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 258,765 residents and 1,787 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.2% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.

What’s watching San Anselmo

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 San Anselmo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Anselmo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in San Anselmo

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.

Cameras near San Anselmo

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).