Flock & ALPR Cameras in Universal City, California
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Universal City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Universal City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Universal City itself.
The rest sit in Burbank (7), Los Angeles (7).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Burbank (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Universal City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Universal City
The readers mapped around Universal City break down as 12 Flock Safety, 3 Genetec, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Burbank. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Sarah Street — 3 readers
- Riverside Drive — 2 readers
- Universal Studios Boulevard — 2 readers
- Kling Street — 2 readers
- South Buena Vista Street — 1 reader
- West Alameda Avenue — 1 reader
- Lakeside Drive — 1 reader
- Los Angeles County — 1 reader
- Arcola Avenue — 1 reader
- Olive Avenue — 1 reader
- Ledge Avenue — 1 reader
- North Pass Avenue — 1 reader
Universal City 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 12 traffic, 2 street. Operators named on the record: Burbank (2).
Camera activity around Universal City, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Universal City. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Universal City
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 Universal City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Universal City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Universal City
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 Universal City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).