Cameras / California / Salinas
License plate readers in Salinas, CA
Volunteers have documented 120 automated license plate readers inside Salinas. That is the 23rd-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.6% of the statewide total. At 5.1 per square mile it is more densely covered than 90% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's and The Home Depot. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 93 on poles and 8 on traffic signals.
Updated August 14, 2026.
120
readers documented
5.1
per square mile
23rd
of 329 indexed California cities
0.6%
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 Safety100 · 83%
- Motorola Solutions20 · 17%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 108 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Salinas Police Department (105), Lowe's (2), The Home Depot (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (93), traffic signal (8), street lamp (4)
- Coverage area
- 23.5 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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