Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Gabriel, California
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around San Gabriel — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of San Gabriel, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside San Gabriel itself.
The rest sit in Alhambra (4).
4 of them name an operator in the record: San Gabriel Police Department (3), Alhambra Police Department (1). 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 Gabriel in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in San Gabriel
The readers mapped around San Gabriel break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: San Gabriel Police Department, Alhambra Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- South New Avenue — 2 readers
- South Santa Anita Street — 2 readers
- Valley Boulevard — 1 reader
- Mission Drive — 1 reader
- South Mission Drive — 1 reader
- East Mission Road — 1 reader
- Santa Anita Street — 1 reader
- East Main Street — 1 reader
San Gabriel CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, San Gabriel CA PD runs 20 cameras of its own, has logged 87 plate-database searches, has captured 621,849 vehicle records. Its network connects to 320 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD, Arcadia CA PD, Atherton CA PD.
San Gabriel in the Los Angeles County picture
Los Angeles County has 2,677 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,106 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 9,848,406 residents and 18,753 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: San Gabriel Police Department (3), Alhambra Police Department (1).
What’s watching San Gabriel
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 Gabriel — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Gabriel (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Gabriel
- He accused of damaging Flock cameras in Highland . A license plate reader was used to find him . – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
- America's long march toward Chinese-style surveillance state – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
- California's wrong to expand the use of facial recognition systems – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
- Pasadena police automatically scan license plates , now this activist wants to know how often – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
What you can do in San Gabriel
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 Gabriel
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).