Cameras / California / Lake Forest
License plate readers in Lake Forest, CA
Volunteers have documented 92 automated license plate readers inside Lake Forest. That is the 33rd-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.5% of the statewide total. At 5.5 per square mile it is more densely covered than 91% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.
Updated August 14, 2026.
92
readers documented
5.5
per square mile
33rd
of 329 indexed California cities
0.5%
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 Safety81 · 88%
- Genetec1 · 1%
- Unknown10 · 11%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 81 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Orange County Sheriff (21), The Home Depot (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (45), flock:pole (1), flock:bus stop (1)
- Coverage area
- 16.7 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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