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License plate readers in Palm Springs, CA

Volunteers have documented 56 automated license plate readers inside Palm Springs. That is the 92nd-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.3% of the statewide total. Its 0.6 readers per square mile spread across 94.5 square miles — thinner coverage than 89% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit.

Updated August 14, 2026.

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  • 56

    readers documented

  • 0.6

    per square mile

  • 92nd

    of 329 indexed California cities

  • 0.3%

    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

What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
50 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
How they’re mounted
pole (5), street lamp (3), traffic signal (1)
Coverage area
94.5 square miles of land inside city limits.

Nearby

Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · California ALPR law

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.