Flock & ALPR Cameras in Stanton, California
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Stanton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Stanton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Stanton itself.
The rest sit in Garden Grove (7), Cypress (4), Anaheim (1).
9 of them name an operator in the record: City of Stanton (6), Garden Grove Police Department (2), Cypress Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Stanton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:23 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Stanton
The readers mapped around Stanton break down as 24 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: City of Stanton, Garden Grove Police Department, Cypress Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Katella Avenue — 5 readers
- West Chapman Avenue — 3 readers
- South Beach Boulevard — 2 readers
- Beach Boulevard — 2 readers
- Gilbert Street — 2 readers
- Magnolia Street — 2 readers
- Brookhurst Street — 2 readers
- Orangewood Avenue — 1 reader
- Knott Street — 1 reader
- West Katella Avenue — 1 reader
- Western Avenue — 1 reader
- Yamaha Way — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Stanton — all on the live map above.
Stanton in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 1,223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #764 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,164,063 residents and 6,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 23 traffic. Operators named on the record: City of Stanton (6), Garden Grove Police Department (2), Cypress Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Stanton, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Stanton. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Stanton
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 Stanton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Stanton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Stanton
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 Stanton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).