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License plate readers in Los Angeles, CA

Volunteers have documented 491 automated license plate readers inside Los Angeles. That is the 4th-largest total among the 353 California cities indexed here, and 2.3% of the statewide total. Its 1.0 readers per square mile spread across 470.5 square miles — thinner coverage than 74% of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.

Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 29, 2026.

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  • 491

    readers documented

  • 1.0

    per square mile

  • 4th

    of 353 indexed California cities · 12th of 2,395 nationally

  • 2.3%

    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

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What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
388 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
Recorded operators
The Home Depot (39), Los Angeles Police Department (34), Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (17). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
How they’re mounted
pole (78), street lamp (24), ceiling (8), post (5), traffic signal (5)
Coverage area
470.5 square miles of land inside city limits.

Contract decision on record

In Jul 2026, Los Angeles Police Department declined to renew its Flock Safety contract. Department declined to renew after an internal audit found a 32.3% false-positive rate on stolen-vehicle alerts. Reported by Straight Arrow News.

Cameras can still appear in the record above after a decision like this one. These locations change only when a volunteer edits OpenStreetMap, and a decision date is not a removal date. See this decision in the cancellation tracker →

Nearby

Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · California's ALPR statute

These locations were documented in the field by OpenStreetMap volunteers and refresh automatically every six hours. They are evidence of where cameras have been seen — not a complete or official inventory, and cameras may have been added or removed since documentation. Corrections happen upstream: edit OpenStreetMap and this page will update. Read more in our methodology, or download the aggregates in bulk.