Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Whittier, California
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around South Whittier — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Whittier, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Whittier itself.
The rest sit in Santa Fe Springs (13), Whittier (8).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in South Whittier
The readers mapped around South Whittier break down as 15 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Carmenita Road — 3 readers
- Whittier Boulevard — 2 readers
- Whittier Greenway Trail — 2 readers
- Telegraph Road — 1 reader
- Florence Avenue — 1 reader
- Washington Boulevard — 1 reader
- Colima Road — 1 reader
- Santa Fe Springs Road — 1 reader
- Greenleaf Avenue — 1 reader
- Painter Avenue — 1 reader
- Lakeland Road — 1 reader
South Whittier 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 13 traffic.
What’s watching South Whittier
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 Whittier — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Whittier (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Whittier
What you can do in South Whittier
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 Whittier
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).