Flock & ALPR Cameras in UC Irvine, California
Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around UC Irvine — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of UC Irvine, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside UC Irvine itself.
The rest sit in Newport Beach (20), Irvine (9).
17 of them name an operator in the record: Newport Beach Police Department (9), Irvine Police Department (4), Flock Safety (3), Regents of the University of California (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 UC Irvine 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 UC Irvine
The readers mapped around UC Irvine break down as 25 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Newport Beach Police Department, Irvine Police Department, Flock Safety, Regents of the University of California. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Bonita Canyon Drive — 3 readers
- San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor — 2 readers
- Back Bay Loop — 2 readers
- University Drive — 2 readers
- California Avenue — 2 readers
- MacArthur Trail & Side Path — 2 readers
- Vilaggio — 1 reader
- Bison Avenue — 1 reader
- MacArthur Boulevard — 1 reader
- Turtle Ridge Drive — 1 reader
- Culver Drive — 1 reader
- Southeast Bristol Street — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around UC Irvine — all on the live map above.
UC Irvine 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 28 traffic. Operators named on the record: Newport Beach Police Department (9), Irvine Police Department (4), Flock Safety (3).
Camera activity around UC Irvine, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for UC Irvine. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching UC Irvine
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 UC Irvine — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to UC Irvine (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around UC Irvine
- 2 new license plate readers reported around UC Irvine, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around UC Irvine, CA
What you can do in UC Irvine
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 UC Irvine
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).