Cameras / California / Palm Desert
License plate readers in Palm Desert, CA
Volunteers have documented 144 automated license plate readers inside Palm Desert. That is the 19th-largest total among the 355 California cities indexed here, and 0.7% of the statewide total. At 5.4 per square mile it is more densely covered than 89% of the 2,400 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 93% — are Flock Safety units.
Checked against OpenStreetMap October 9, 2026 · figures last changed October 1, 2026.
144
readers documented
5.4
per square mile
19th
of 355 indexed California cities · 79th of 2,400 nationally
0.7%
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 Safety134 · 93%
- Other vendors6 · 4%
- Unknown4 · 3%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 102 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Riverside County Sheriff's Office (3), Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (3). All 725 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (26), traffic signal (13), street lamp (2), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 26.8 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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