Cameras / California / Oceanside
License plate readers in Oceanside, CA
Volunteers have documented 30 automated license plate readers inside Oceanside. That is the 176th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.2% of the statewide total. Its 0.7 readers per square mile spread across 41.3 square miles — thinner coverage than 84% of the 2,232 cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 80% of them.
Updated August 15, 2026.
30
readers documented
0.7
per square mile
176th
of 329 indexed California cities
0.2%
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 Safety24 · 80%
- Other vendors4 · 13%
- Unknown2 · 7%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 30 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Oceanside Police Department (10). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (5), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 41.3 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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