Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Menlo Park, California
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around West Menlo Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 26 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Menlo Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Menlo Park itself.
The rest sit in Atherton (17), Menlo Park (6).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Atherton Police Department (10), San Mateo County Sheriff's Office (1), Stanford University (1). 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 West Menlo Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Menlo Park
The readers mapped around West Menlo Park break down as 26 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Atherton Police Department, Stanford University, San Mateo County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Dec 2025.
- Santa Cruz Avenue — 4 readers
- Sand Hill Road — 3 readers
- Reservoir Road — 3 readers
- Alameda de las Pulgas — 2 readers
- Stockbridge Avenue — 2 readers
- Atherton Avenue — 2 readers
- Polhemus Avenue — 1 reader
- Stock Farm Road — 1 reader
- Oak Hollow Way — 1 reader
- Camino por Los Arboles — 1 reader
- Santiago Avenue — 1 reader
- Walsh Road — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around West Menlo Park — all on the live map above.
West Menlo Park in the San Mateo County picture
San Mateo County has 628 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #164 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.6% nationally. That’s across 745,100 residents and 1,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.34 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Atherton Police Department (10), Stanford University (1), San Mateo County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching West Menlo Park
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 Menlo Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Menlo Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in West Menlo Park
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 Menlo Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).