Cameras / California / Sacramento
License plate readers in Sacramento, CA
Volunteers have documented 226 automated license plate readers inside Sacramento. That is the 6th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 1.2% of the statewide total. At 2.3 per square mile it is more densely covered than 66% of the 2,231 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 109 on poles and 4 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
226
readers documented
2.3
per square mile
6th
of 329 indexed California cities
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 Safety107 · 47%
- Motorola Solutions107 · 47%
- Genetec1 · 0%
- Leonardo/ELSAG1 · 0%
- Other vendors2 · 1%
- Unknown8 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 208 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Sacramento Police Department (95), Kaiser Permanente (15), The Home Depot (9). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (109), street lamp (4), traffic signal (3), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 98.7 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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