Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Diego, California
Volunteers have reported 231 automated license plate readers in and around San Diego — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 27 Montavue camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in San Diego
The readers mapped around San Diego break down as 185 Ubicquia, Inc., 24 Flock Safety, 11 Ubicquia. Named operators in the reports: San Diego Police Department, Lowe's, The Home Depot, Simon Property Group. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- University Avenue — 13 readers
- Park Boulevard — 11 readers
- El Cajon Boulevard — 7 readers
- Sports Arena Boulevard — 6 readers
- Friars Road — 6 readers
- Logan Avenue — 6 readers
- National Avenue — 6 readers
- Ulric Street — 5 readers
- Adams Avenue — 5 readers
- Imperial Avenue — 5 readers
- Linda Vista Road — 4 readers
- Hotel Circle North — 4 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around San Diego — all on the live map above.
San Diego CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, San Diego CA PD runs 500 cameras of its own, has captured 3,140,657 vehicle records. Its network connects to 120 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
San Diego 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 182 town, 22 traffic, 20 public. Operators named on the record: San Diego Police Department (196), Lowe's (6), The Home Depot (5).
Camera activity around San Diego, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for San Diego. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching San Diego
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 Diego — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Diego (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Diego
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- 4 new license plate readers reported around San Diego, CA
- El Cajon mayor blasts CA AG over license plate reader lawsuit – NBC 7 San Diego
What you can do in San Diego
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 Diego
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).