Cameras / California / Riverside
License plate readers in Riverside, CA
Volunteers have documented 165 automated license plate readers inside Riverside. That is the 15th-largest total among the 357 California cities indexed here, and 0.8% of the statewide total. Its density of 2.0 per square mile places Riverside near the middle of the 2,431 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 77 on poles and 14 on street lamps.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 13, 2026 · figures last changed October 17, 2026.
165
readers documented
2.0
per square mile
15th
of 357 indexed California cities · 65th of 2,431 nationally
0.8%
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 Safety139 · 84%
- Motorola Solutions12 · 7%
- Genetec7 · 4%
- Unknown7 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 126 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- UC Riverside (5), Lowe's Home Improvement (3), Riverside Police Department (1). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (77), street lamp (14), 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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