Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Carlos, California
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around San Carlos — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 26 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of San Carlos, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside San Carlos itself.
The rest sit in Redwood City (5).
9 of them name an operator in the record: San Mateo County Sheriff's Office (5), Flock Safety (4). 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 San Carlos in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in San Carlos
The readers mapped around San Carlos break down as 12 Flock Safety, 8 of unrecorded make, 6 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Brittan Avenue — 6 readers
- Industrial Road — 4 readers
- Wellington Drive — 4 readers
- Holly Street — 3 readers
- Airport Way — 3 readers
- San Carlos Avenue — 1 reader
- Alameda de las Pulgas — 1 reader
- Old County Road — 1 reader
- Skyway Road — 1 reader
- Shoreway Road — 1 reader
- Belmont Avenue — 1 reader
San Carlos 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 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: San Mateo County Sheriff's Office (5), Flock Safety (4).
Camera activity around San Carlos, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for San Carlos. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching San Carlos
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 Carlos — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Carlos (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Carlos
What you can do in San Carlos
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 Carlos
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).