Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tustin Legacy, California
Volunteers have reported 76 automated license plate readers in and around Tustin Legacy — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 76 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tustin Legacy, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Tustin Legacy itself.
The rest sit in Tustin (43), Costa Mesa (13), Irvine (13), Santa Ana (6).
43 of them name an operator in the record: Tustin Police Department (24), Irvine Police Department (12), Costa Mesa Police Department (2), County of Orange (1), Flock Safety (1), Lowe's (1), Simon Property Group (1), Vestar Properties (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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- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Tustin Legacy
The readers mapped around Tustin Legacy break down as 38 Motorola Solutions, 37 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Tustin Police Department, Irvine Police Department, Costa Mesa Police Department, Vestar Properties, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Park Avenue — 14 readers
- Red Hill Avenue — 12 readers
- Tustin Ranch Road — 9 readers
- East Warner Avenue — 6 readers
- Bristol Street — 5 readers
- District Drive — 4 readers
- West Sunflower Avenue — 3 readers
- McGaw Avenue — 2 readers
- Barranca Parkway — 2 readers
- MacArthur Boulevard — 2 readers
- Main Street — 2 readers
- San Diego Freeway — 2 readers
+ 12 more streets and roads mapped around Tustin Legacy — all on the live map above.
Tustin Legacy 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 67 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Tustin Police Department (24), Irvine Police Department (12), Costa Mesa Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Tustin Legacy, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Tustin Legacy. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Tustin Legacy
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 Tustin Legacy — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tustin Legacy (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Tustin Legacy
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 Tustin Legacy
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).