Flock & ALPR Cameras in University Town Center, California
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around University Town Center — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of University Town Center, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside University Town Center itself.
The rest sit in Irvine (17), Newport Beach (5), Costa Mesa (1).
17 of them name an operator in the record: Irvine Police Department (13), Newport Beach Police Department (2), Regents of the University of California (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 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 University Town Center in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in University Town Center
The readers mapped around University Town Center break down as 21 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Irvine Police Department, Regents of the University of California, Newport Beach Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Campus Drive — 10 readers
- Barclay Theatre Service Road — 2 readers
- Jamboree Road — 1 reader
- Culver Drive — 1 reader
- University Drive — 1 reader
- MacArthur Boulevard — 1 reader
- Southeast Bristol Street — 1 reader
- Irvine Avenue — 1 reader
- Airport Way — 1 reader
- Sand Canyon Wash Trail — 1 reader
- Bridge Road — 1 reader
- Harvard Avenue — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around University Town Center — all on the live map above.
University Town Center 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, 1 parking_entrance. Operators named on the record: Irvine Police Department (13), Regents of the University of California (2), Newport Beach Police Department (2).
Camera activity around University Town Center, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for University Town Center. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching University Town Center
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 University Town Center — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to University Town Center (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in University Town Center
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 University Town Center
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).