Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Marino, California
Volunteers have reported 32 automated license plate readers in and around San Marino — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 32 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of San Marino, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 31 of them sit inside San Marino itself.
The rest sit in Pasadena (1).
19 of them name an operator in the record: San Marino Police Department (19). 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 Marino in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in San Marino
The readers mapped around San Marino break down as 31 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: San Marino Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Huntington Drive — 7 readers
- San Marino Avenue — 5 readers
- Sierra Madre Boulevard — 3 readers
- East California Boulevard — 3 readers
- Lorain Road — 2 readers
- Virginia Road — 2 readers
- Monterey Road — 2 readers
- Oak Grove Avenue — 2 readers
- South San Gabriel Boulevard — 1 reader
- Saint Albans Road — 1 reader
- Del Mar Avenue — 1 reader
- Duarte Road — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around San Marino — all on the live map above.
San Marino CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, San Marino CA PD runs 40 cameras of its own, has logged 28 plate-database searches, has captured 581,290 vehicle records. Its network connects to 104 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alhambra CA PD, Anaheim CA PD, Azusa CA PD, Baldwin Park CA PD, Bell CA PD, Bell Gardens CA PD, Beverly Hills CA PD, Buena Park CA PD.
San Marino 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 31 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: San Marino Police Department (19).
What’s watching San Marino
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 Marino — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Marino (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Marino
What you can do in San Marino
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 Marino
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).