Flock & ALPR Cameras in Solana Beach, California
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Solana Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Solana Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Solana Beach itself.
The rest sit in Encinitas (6), Del Mar (1), San Diego (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Solana Beach
The readers mapped around Solana Beach break down as 17 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Manchester Avenue — 4 readers
- Via de la Valle — 3 readers
- Lomas Santa Fe Drive — 2 readers
- Sierra Avenue — 1 reader
- South Coast Highway 101 — 1 reader
- Coastal Rail Trail — 1 reader
- Cardiff State Beach — 1 reader
- Spindrift Drive — 1 reader
- Santa Helena — 1 reader
- Acacia Avenue — 1 reader
- Academy Drive — 1 reader
Solana Beach in the San Diego County picture
San Diego County has 1,252 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #781 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,282,782 residents and 11,651 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.
Camera activity around Solana Beach, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Solana Beach. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Solana Beach
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 Solana Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Solana Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Solana Beach
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Solana Beach, CA
- Solana Beach latest city to approve license plate readers
What you can do in Solana Beach
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 Solana Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).