Flock & ALPR Cameras in Westminster, California
Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around Westminster — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 31 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Westminster, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Westminster itself.
The rest sit in Garden Grove (11), Huntington Beach (3), Stanton (2).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Garden Grove Police Department (4), Westminster Police Department (4), Huntington Beach Police Department (3), City of Stanton (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 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Westminster
The readers mapped around Westminster break down as 25 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Westminster Police Department, Garden Grove Police Department, Huntington Beach Police Department, City of Stanton. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Westminster Boulevard — 5 readers
- Springdale Street — 3 readers
- Westmart Lane — 3 readers
- Garden Grove Boulevard — 3 readers
- Garden Grove Freeway — 2 readers
- Bolsa Chica Street — 2 readers
- Stanford Avenue — 2 readers
- Valley View Street — 2 readers
- Beach Boulevard — 2 readers
- I 405 EXPR — 1 reader
- Bolsa Avenue — 1 reader
- Knott Street — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Westminster — all on the live map above.
Westminster CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Westminster CA PD runs 22 cameras of its own, has logged 369 plate-database searches, has captured 1,036,356 vehicle records. Its network connects to 339 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District DA's Office- LA PD, Alameda CA PD, Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD.
Westminster 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 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Westminster Police Department (4), Garden Grove Police Department (4), Huntington Beach Police Department (3).
Camera activity around Westminster, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Westminster. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Westminster
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 Westminster — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Westminster (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Westminster
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Westminster, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Westminster, CA
What you can do in Westminster
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 Westminster
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).