Cameras / California / San Jose
License plate readers in San Jose, CA
Volunteers have documented 549 automated license plate readers inside San Jose. That is the 2nd-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 2.8% of the statewide total. At 3.1 per square mile it is more densely covered than 79% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 99% — are Flock Safety units. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 342 on poles and 15 on street lights.
Updated August 14, 2026.
549
readers documented
3.1
per square mile
2nd
of 329 indexed California cities
2.8%
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 Safety543 · 99%
- Motorola Solutions5 · 1%
- Genetec1 · 0%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 500 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- San Jose Police Department (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (342), streetlight (15), street lamp (6), traffic signal (2), streelight (1)
- Coverage area
- 177.9 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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