Cameras / California / Costa Mesa
License plate readers in Costa Mesa, CA
Volunteers have documented 75 automated license plate readers inside Costa Mesa. That is the 52nd-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. At 4.8 per square mile it is more densely covered than 89% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 93% — are Flock Safety units. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 15 on traffic signals and 14 on poles.
Updated August 14, 2026.
75
readers documented
4.8
per square mile
52nd
of 329 indexed California cities
0.4%
of California’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety70 · 93%
- Unknown5 · 7%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 68 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Costa Mesa Police Department (16), Newport Beach Police Department (2), Orange County Transportation Authority (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- traffic signal (15), pole (14), street lamp (7), street pole (1)
- Coverage area
- 15.8 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · California ALPR law
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