Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sherman Oaks, California
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Sherman Oaks — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sherman Oaks, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sherman Oaks itself.
The rest sit in Los Angeles (8).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Bel-Air Association (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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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sherman Oaks
The readers mapped around Sherman Oaks break down as 4 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Bel-Air Association. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Riverside Drive — 2 readers
- Roscomare Road — 1 reader
- Galewood Street — 1 reader
- Margate Street — 1 reader
- Cedros Avenue — 1 reader
- Greenleaf Street — 1 reader
Sherman Oaks 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 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Bel-Air Association (1).
Camera activity around Sherman Oaks, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sherman Oaks. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Sherman Oaks
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 Sherman Oaks — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sherman Oaks (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sherman Oaks
What you can do in Sherman Oaks
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 Sherman Oaks
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).