Cameras / California / El Cajon
License plate readers in El Cajon, CA
Volunteers have documented 88 automated license plate readers inside El Cajon. That is the 36th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. At 6.1 per square mile it is more densely covered than 92% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 84% of them.
Updated August 14, 2026.
88
readers documented
6.1
per square mile
36th
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 Safety74 · 84%
- Unknown14 · 16%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 86 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- City of El Cajon (15). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (2), post (1), street lamp (1), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 14.5 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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