Flock & ALPR Cameras in Signal Hill, California
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Signal Hill — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Signal Hill, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Signal Hill itself.
The rest sit in Long Beach (27), Lakewood (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Signal Hill
The readers mapped around Signal Hill break down as 17 Flock Safety, 10 Motorola Solutions, 3 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Lakewood Boulevard — 8 readers
- East 27th Street — 3 readers
- East Spring Street — 3 readers
- Pacific Coast Highway — 3 readers
- East Anaheim Street — 2 readers
- Bellflower Boulevard — 2 readers
- Redondo Avenue — 2 readers
- Donald Douglas Drive — 2 readers
- Atlantic Avenue — 1 reader
- Cherry Avenue — 1 reader
- Town Center East — 1 reader
- Obispo Avenue — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Signal Hill — all on the live map above.
Signal Hill CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Signal Hill CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 59 other agencies.
Signal Hill 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 19 traffic, 3 parking.
Camera activity around Signal Hill, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Signal Hill. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Signal Hill
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 Signal Hill — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Signal Hill (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Signal Hill
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Signal Hill, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Signal Hill, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Signal Hill, CA
What you can do in Signal Hill
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 Signal Hill
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).