Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Pasadena, California
Volunteers have reported 32 automated license plate readers in and around South Pasadena — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Removed
South Pasadena is on the record here. South Pasadena will remove its Flock Safety cameras over privacy concerns.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 32 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Pasadena, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside South Pasadena itself.
The rest sit in Pasadena (8), San Marino (4), Los Angeles (2), Alhambra (1).
13 of them name an operator in the record: Pasadena Police Department (7), South Pasadena Police Department (4), Alhambra Police Department (1), San Marino 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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No new reports near South Pasadena in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Pasadena
The readers mapped around South Pasadena break down as 31 Flock Safety, 1 Flow Safety. Named operators in the reports: Pasadena Police Department, South Pasadena Police Department, Alhambra Police Department, San Marino Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Fair Oaks Avenue — 5 readers
- East Glenarm Street — 3 readers
- South Los Robles Avenue — 2 readers
- West Glenarm Street — 2 readers
- Fremont Avenue — 2 readers
- Orange Grove Avenue — 2 readers
- Meridian Avenue — 2 readers
- Pasadena Avenue — 2 readers
- Monterey Road — 2 readers
- South Fair Oaks Avenue — 1 reader
- Railroad Street — 1 reader
- West Alhambra Road — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around South Pasadena — all on the live map above.
South Pasadena CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Pasadena CA PD runs 27 cameras of its own, has logged 97 plate-database searches, has captured 443,644 vehicle records. Its network connects to 333 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD.
South Pasadena 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 29 traffic. Operators named on the record: Pasadena Police Department (7), South Pasadena Police Department (4), Alhambra Police Department (1).
Camera activity around South Pasadena, last 30 days
4 newly reported, 6 removed in our hourly change log for South Pasadena. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching South Pasadena
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 South Pasadena — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Pasadena (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Pasadena
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near South Pasadena, CA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near South Pasadena, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Pasadena, CA
- South Pasadena to remove Flock Safety cameras over privacy concerns
What you can do in South Pasadena
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 South Pasadena
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).