Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Luis Obispo, California
Volunteers have reported 40 automated license plate readers in and around San Luis Obispo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 7 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 Luis Obispo
The readers mapped around San Luis Obispo break down as 32 Flock Safety, 7 Verkada, 1 Iteris. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Froom Ranch Way — 3 readers
- South Street — 3 readers
- Los Osos Valley Road — 3 readers
- Higuera Street — 3 readers
- Bob Jones Trail — 3 readers
- San Luis Obispo County — 2 readers
- Mount Bishop Road — 2 readers
- Highland Drive — 2 readers
- Grand Avenue — 2 readers
- Broad Street — 2 readers
- Monte Vista Place — 1 reader
- California Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around San Luis Obispo — all on the live map above.
San Luis Obispo CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, San Luis Obispo CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 150 other agencies.
San Luis Obispo in the San Luis Obispo County picture
San Luis Obispo County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #691 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 281,486 residents and 7,034 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 32.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic, 1 street, 1 commercial;parking;traffic;public. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around San Luis Obispo, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for San Luis Obispo. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching San Luis Obispo
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 Luis Obispo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Luis Obispo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Luis Obispo
- Still kickin'! - New Times San Luis Obispo
- 2 new license plate readers reported around San Luis Obispo, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around San Luis Obispo, CA
- Police surveillance cameras are scattered around SLO County. Some want them gone
What you can do in San Luis Obispo
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 Luis Obispo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).