Cameras / California / Piedmont
License plate readers in Piedmont, CA
Volunteers have documented 38 automated license plate readers inside Piedmont. That is the 143rd-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.2% of the statewide total. At 22.4 readers per square mile, Piedmont sits in the most densely covered 5% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 97% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
38
readers documented
22.4
per square mile
143rd
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 Safety37 · 97%
- Unknown1 · 3%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 21 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- City of Piedmont (3). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (10)
- Coverage area
- 1.7 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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