Cameras / California / Lake Forest
License plate readers in Lake Forest, CA
Volunteers have documented 80 automated license plate readers inside Lake Forest. That is the 60th-largest total among the 355 California cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. At 4.8 per square mile it is more densely covered than 87% of the 2,400 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.
Checked against OpenStreetMap October 9, 2026 · figures last changed October 3, 2026.
80
readers documented
4.8
per square mile
60th
of 355 indexed California cities · 218th of 2,400 nationally
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 · 88%
- Genetec1 · 1%
- Unknown9 · 11%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 70 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Orange County Sheriff (20), The Home Depot (1), Angle was recently turned. Unknown if in (1). All 725 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (43), flock:pole (1), flock:bus stop (1)
- Coverage area
- 16.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · California's ALPR statute
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