Flock & ALPR Cameras in Santa Monica, California
Volunteers have reported 60 automated license plate readers in and around Santa Monica — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Santa Monica in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Santa Monica
The readers mapped around Santa Monica break down as 44 Flock Safety, 10 Axis Communications, 5 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Ocean Park Boulevard — 6 readers
- 4th Street — 6 readers
- Ocean Avenue — 5 readers
- 20th Street — 5 readers
- Santa Monica Boulevard — 4 readers
- Pico Boulevard — 4 readers
- Pacific Coast Highway — 3 readers
- Montana Avenue — 2 readers
- Santa Monica Freeway — 2 readers
- 14th Street — 2 readers
- Barnard Way — 2 readers
- 7th Street — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Santa Monica — all on the live map above.
Santa Monica CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Santa Monica CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 125 other agencies.
Santa Monica 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 58 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2), Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (1).
Camera activity around Santa Monica, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for Santa Monica. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Santa Monica
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 Monica — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Santa Monica (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Santa Monica
- Santa Monica College woes
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Santa Monica, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Santa Monica, CA
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Santa Monica, CA
What you can do in Santa Monica
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 Monica
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).