Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Joaquin Hills, California
Volunteers have reported 41 automated license plate readers in and around San Joaquin Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 41 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of San Joaquin Hills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside San Joaquin Hills itself.
The rest sit in Newport Beach (38), Irvine (3).
11 of them name an operator in the record: Newport Beach Police Department (9), 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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No new reports near San Joaquin Hills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 18:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in San Joaquin Hills
The readers mapped around San Joaquin Hills break down as 35 Flock Safety, 6 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Newport Beach Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Newport Coast Drive — 7 readers
- San Joaquin Hills Road — 5 readers
- San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor — 4 readers
- San Miguel Drive — 4 readers
- Ridge Park Road — 4 readers
- Spyglass Hill Road — 3 readers
- Newport Center Drive West — 2 readers
- Newport Center Drive East — 2 readers
- Seaward Road — 2 readers
- Morning Canyon Road — 2 readers
- Marguerite Avenue — 2 readers
- Pacific Coast Highway — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around San Joaquin Hills — all on the live map above.
San Joaquin Hills in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 1,223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #764 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,164,063 residents and 6,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 41 traffic. Operators named on the record: Newport Beach Police Department (9), Flock Safety (2).
Camera activity around San Joaquin Hills, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for San Joaquin Hills. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching San Joaquin Hills
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 Joaquin Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Joaquin Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Joaquin Hills
- 4 new license plate readers reported around San Joaquin Hills, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around San Joaquin Hills, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around San Joaquin Hills, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around San Joaquin Hills, CA
What you can do in San Joaquin Hills
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 Joaquin Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).