Cameras / California / Riverside
License plate readers in Riverside, CA
Volunteers have documented 153 automated license plate readers inside Riverside. That is the 16th-largest total among the 353 California cities indexed here, and 0.7% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.9 per square mile places Riverside near the middle of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's Home Improvement. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 76 on poles and 13 on street lamps.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed August 29, 2026.
153
readers documented
1.9
per square mile
16th
of 353 indexed California cities · 71st of 2,395 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 · 88%
- Motorola Solutions12 · 8%
- Genetec4 · 3%
- Unknown3 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 118 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's Home Improvement (3), Riverside Police Department (1). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (76), street lamp (13), traffic signal (4), utility pole (2), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 81.1 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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