Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tustin, California
Volunteers have reported 41 automated license plate readers in and around Tustin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 41 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tustin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 32 of them sit inside Tustin itself.
The rest sit in Santa Ana (8).
30 of them name an operator in the record: Tustin Police Department (27), The Home Depot (3). 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 14 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
The readers mapped around Tustin break down as 26 Motorola Solutions, 9 Flock Safety, 3 Axon Enterprise. Named operators in the reports: Tustin Police Department, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East 17th Street — 9 readers
- Irvine Boulevard — 6 readers
- McFadden Avenue — 4 readers
- Newport Avenue — 4 readers
- East 1st Street — 3 readers
- East Edinger Avenue — 3 readers
- Edinger Avenue — 2 readers
- East Main Street — 2 readers
- West 1st Street — 2 readers
- Hotel Way — 1 reader
- Ritchey Street — 1 reader
- South Lyon Street — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Tustin — all on the live map above.
Tustin CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Tustin CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 133 other agencies.
Tustin 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 40 traffic. Operators named on the record: Tustin Police Department (27), The Home Depot (3).
Camera activity around Tustin, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Tustin. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Tustin
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 — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tustin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Tustin
- On the agenda: Tustin Regular Meeting of the City Council/Closed Session-4:30 pm/Regular Meeting-6:00 pm - Sep 01, 2026 — surveillance camera (Sep 1)
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Tustin, CA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Tustin, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Tustin, CA
What you can do in Tustin
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
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).