Cameras / California / Sacramento
License plate readers in Sacramento, CA
Volunteers have documented 246 automated license plate readers inside Sacramento. That is the 6th-largest total among the 353 California cities indexed here, and 1.2% of the statewide total. At 2.5 per square mile it is more densely covered than 66% of the 2,395 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Kaiser Permanente and The Home Depot. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 112 on poles and 6 on street lamps.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 25, 2026.
246
readers documented
2.5
per square mile
6th
of 353 indexed California cities · 30th of 2,395 nationally
1.2%
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 Safety124 · 50%
- Motorola Solutions111 · 45%
- Genetec1 · 0%
- Other vendors2 · 1%
- Unknown8 · 3%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 228 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Sacramento Police Department (95), Kaiser Permanente (15), The Home Depot (9). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (112), street lamp (6), traffic signal (4), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 98.7 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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