Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Athens, California
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around West Athens — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Athens, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Athens itself.
The rest sit in Hawthorne (5), Los Angeles (4), Gardena (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (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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- Sep 24 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in West Athens
The readers mapped around West Athens break down as 8 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West 120th Street — 3 readers
- West 117th Street — 3 readers
- West El Segundo Boulevard — 2 readers
- Wilkie Avenue — 1 reader
West Athens 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 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around West Athens, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for West Athens. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching West Athens
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 West Athens — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Athens (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Athens
What you can do in West Athens
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 West Athens
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).