Cameras / California / Palo Alto
License plate readers in Palo Alto, CA
Volunteers have documented 41 automated license plate readers inside Palo Alto. That is the 136th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.2% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.7 per square mile places Palo Alto near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 98% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
41
readers documented
1.7
per square mile
136th
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 Safety40 · 98%
- Unknown1 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 12 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Palo Alto Police Department (11), Flock Safety (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (8), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 24.1 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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