Flock & ALPR Cameras in Santa Ana, California
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Santa Ana — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Santa Ana in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Santa Ana
The readers mapped around Santa Ana break down as 7 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Santa Ana Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West 17th Street — 2 readers
- West Bishop Street — 1 reader
- North Bristol Street — 1 reader
- West 1st Street — 1 reader
- East 1st Street — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- North Broadway — 1 reader
Santa Ana CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Santa Ana CA PD runs 24 cameras of its own, has logged 382 plate-database searches, has captured 1,319,793 vehicle records. Its network connects to 345 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD, Arcadia CA PD, Barstow CA PD, Bear Valley Springs CA PD, Beaumont CA PD.
Santa Ana 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 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Santa Ana Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Santa Ana, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Santa Ana. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.
What’s watching Santa Ana
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 Santa Ana — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Santa Ana (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Santa Ana
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- Advocates call for end of Flock and other automated license plate readers use in Santa Ana
What you can do in Santa Ana
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 Santa Ana
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).