Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Hollywood, California
Volunteers have reported 65 automated license plate readers in and around West Hollywood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 66 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Hollywood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 38 of them sit inside West Hollywood itself.
The rest sit in Los Angeles (26), Beverly Hills (2).
8 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (7), Los Angeles Police Department (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 West Hollywood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Hollywood
The readers mapped around West Hollywood break down as 58 Flock Safety, 6 Motorola Solutions, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Los Angeles Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North La Brea Avenue — 7 readers
- Santa Monica Boulevard — 6 readers
- West Sunset Boulevard — 6 readers
- Melrose Avenue — 5 readers
- North La Cienega Boulevard — 4 readers
- Fountain Avenue — 3 readers
- North Stanley Avenue — 3 readers
- North Fairfax Avenue — 3 readers
- North Kings Road — 3 readers
- North Crescent Heights Boulevard — 2 readers
- Waring Avenue — 2 readers
- West 1st Street — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around West Hollywood — all on the live map above.
West Hollywood 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 63 traffic, 3 parking. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (7), Los Angeles Police Department (1).
What’s watching West Hollywood
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 Hollywood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Hollywood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Hollywood
- 2 new license plate readers reported around West Hollywood, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around West Hollywood, CA
- 7 new license plate readers reported around West Hollywood, CA
What you can do in West Hollywood
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 Hollywood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).