California · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Yorba Linda, California

Volunteers have reported 57 automated license plate readers in and around Yorba Linda — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 57 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Yorba Linda, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 39 of them sit inside Yorba Linda itself.

The rest sit in Anaheim (12), Brea (4), Placentia (2).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Live camera map 57 reported cameras around Yorba Linda, California

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Yorba Linda

+1 this week +8 last 30 days −1 removed

Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Yorba Linda

The readers mapped around Yorba Linda break down as 45 Flock Safety, 4 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.

East Imperial Highway — 5 readers
Bastanchury Road — 4 readers
Yorba Linda Boulevard — 4 readers
Savi Ranch Parkway — 3 readers
CA 91 EXPR — 2 readers
HOV 3+ Lane — 2 readers
Fairmont Boulevard — 2 readers
Village Center Drive — 2 readers
Lakeview Avenue — 2 readers
Clydesdale — 2 readers
Pullman Street — 2 readers
West Santa Fe Road — 2 readers

+ 15 more streets and roads mapped around Yorba Linda — all on the live map above.

Yorba Linda 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 39 traffic, 7 street.

Camera activity around Yorba Linda, last 30 days

8 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Yorba Linda. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.

What’s watching Yorba Linda

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 Yorba Linda — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Yorba Linda (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Yorba Linda

What you can do in Yorba Linda

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 Yorba Linda

Placentia (15) Villa Park (42) Brea (50) Fullerton (15)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).