Cameras / California / Los Angeles
License plate readers in Los Angeles, CA
Volunteers have documented 423 automated license plate readers inside Los Angeles. That is the 5th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 2.2% of the statewide total. Its 0.9 readers per square mile spread across 470.5 square miles — thinner coverage than 77% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.
Updated August 14, 2026.
423
readers documented
0.9
per square mile
5th
of 329 indexed California cities
2.2%
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 Safety305 · 72%
- Motorola Solutions57 · 13%
- Genetec13 · 3%
- Neology2 · 0%
- Other vendors6 · 1%
- Unknown40 · 9%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 321 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Los Angeles Police Department (34), The Home Depot (30), Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transpor (17). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (67), street lamp (19), ceiling (8), post (5), traffic signal (4)
- Coverage area
- 470.5 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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