Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sawtelle, California
Volunteers have reported 30 automated license plate readers in and around Sawtelle — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 38 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sawtelle, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sawtelle itself.
The rest sit in Santa Monica (20), Los Angeles (18).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (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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- Sep 25 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 25 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sawtelle
The readers mapped around Sawtelle break down as 17 Flock Safety, 12 Axis Communications, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Olympic Boulevard — 7 readers
- Ocean Park Boulevard — 4 readers
- Sawtelle Boulevard — 2 readers
- South Bundy Drive — 2 readers
- West Pico Boulevard — 2 readers
- 23rd Street — 2 readers
- Pico Boulevard — 2 readers
- National Boulevard — 2 readers
- Exposition Boulevard — 2 readers
- Franklin Street — 1 reader
- Los Angeles — 1 reader
- South Barrington Avenue — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Sawtelle — all on the live map above.
Sawtelle 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 33 traffic, 1 entrance. Operators named on the record: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (2).
Camera activity around Sawtelle, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sawtelle. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Sawtelle
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 Sawtelle — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sawtelle (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sawtelle
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sawtelle, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sawtelle, CA
What you can do in Sawtelle
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 Sawtelle
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).