Flock & ALPR Cameras in Seaside, California
Volunteers have reported 51 automated license plate readers in and around Seaside — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 51 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Seaside, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 20 of them sit inside Seaside itself.
The rest sit in Sand City (20), Monterey (10), Del Rey Oaks (1).
24 of them name an operator in the record: Seaside Police Department (15), Flock Safety (5), The Home Depot (3), Monterey Police Department (1). 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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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Seaside
The readers mapped around Seaside break down as 49 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Seaside Police Department, Flock Safety, The Home Depot, Monterey Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Cabrillo Highway — 6 readers
- California Avenue — 5 readers
- Playa Avenue — 4 readers
- North Fremont Street — 4 readers
- Fremont Boulevard — 3 readers
- Noche Buena Street — 3 readers
- Metz Road — 2 readers
- Monterey Bay Coastal Trail — 2 readers
- Roberts Avenue — 2 readers
- Canyon del Rey Boulevard — 2 readers
- Broadway Avenue — 1 reader
- General Jim Moore Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Seaside — all on the live map above.
Seaside CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Seaside CA PD runs 30 cameras of its own, has logged 123 plate-database searches, has captured 277,818 vehicle records. Its network connects to 361 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD.
Seaside in the Monterey County picture
Monterey County has 303 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #264 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.3% nationally. That’s across 435,834 residents and 6,864 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 49 traffic. Operators named on the record: Seaside Police Department (15), Flock Safety (5), The Home Depot (2).
Camera activity around Seaside, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Seaside. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Seaside
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 Seaside — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Seaside (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Seaside
- In the minutes: Seaside Community Safety Advisory Commission, flock camera (Sep 16)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Seaside, CA
What you can do in Seaside
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 Seaside
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).