Cameras / California / San Diego
License plate readers in San Diego, CA
Volunteers have documented 724 automated license plate readers inside San Diego. No other California city in this index has more, and San Diego alone accounts for 3.7% of every reader documented in the state. At 2.2 per square mile it is more densely covered than 65% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot and Lowe's. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 416 on street lamps and 156 on traffic signals.
Updated August 14, 2026.
724
readers documented
2.2
per square mile
1st
of 329 indexed California cities
3.7%
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 Safety92 · 13%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 0%
- Leonardo/ELSAG1 · 0%
- Other vendors601 · 83%
- Unknown29 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 136 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- San Diego Police Department (591), The Home Depot (8), Lowe's (6). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (416), traffic signal (156), pole (13)
- Coverage area
- 326 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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