Cameras / California / Newport Beach
License plate readers in Newport Beach, CA
Volunteers have documented 76 automated license plate readers inside Newport Beach. That is the 51st-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. At 3.2 per square mile it is more densely covered than 80% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 96% — are Flock Safety units. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 9 on street lamps and 8 on poles.
Updated August 14, 2026.
76
readers documented
3.2
per square mile
51st
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 Safety73 · 96%
- Unknown3 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 74 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Newport Beach Police Department (35), Flock Safety (5). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (9), pole (8), traffic signal (5), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 23.8 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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