Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Bruno, California
Volunteers have reported 56 automated license plate readers in and around San Bruno — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 56 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of San Bruno, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 46 of them sit inside San Bruno itself.
The rest sit in South San Francisco (8), Millbrae (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (2). 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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On the agenda: San Bruno meeting — ALPR (Oct 8)
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- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in San Bruno
The readers mapped around San Bruno break down as 52 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 1 CoStar. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- El Camino Real — 12 readers
- San Bruno Avenue West — 5 readers
- Huntington Avenue — 5 readers
- Sneath Lane — 4 readers
- Avalon Drive — 3 readers
- San Mateo Avenue — 3 readers
- South Airport Boulevard — 2 readers
- San Bruno Avenue East — 2 readers
- Cherry Avenue — 2 readers
- Cunningham Way — 2 readers
- Commodore Drive — 2 readers
- Citation Avenue — 2 readers
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around San Bruno — all on the live map above.
San Bruno CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, San Bruno CA PD runs 69 cameras of its own, has logged 272 plate-database searches, has captured 594,785 vehicle records. Its network connects to 343 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD.
San Bruno in the San Mateo County picture
San Mateo County has 628 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #164 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.6% nationally. That’s across 745,100 residents and 1,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.34 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 53 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
Camera activity around San Bruno, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for San Bruno. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching San Bruno
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 Bruno — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Bruno (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Bruno
- On the agenda: San Bruno meeting — ALPR (Oct 8)
- On the agenda: San Bruno meeting — License Plate Reader (Sep 10)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around San Bruno, CA
- On the agenda: San Bruno meeting — surveillance camera (Apr 14)
What you can do in San Bruno
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 San Bruno
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).