Cameras / California / San Luis Obispo
License plate readers in San Luis Obispo, CA
Volunteers have documented 30 automated license plate readers inside San Luis Obispo. That is the 188th-largest total among the 357 California cities indexed here, and 0.1% of the statewide total. At 2.2 per square mile it is more densely covered than 61% of the 2,432 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 4 on traffic signals and 3 on street lamps.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 13, 2026 · figures last changed November 5, 2026.
30
readers documented
2.2
per square mile
188th
of 357 indexed California cities · 838th of 2,432 nationally
0.1%
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 Safety22 · 73%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 3%
- Other vendors7 · 23%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 22 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- The Home Depot (1). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- traffic signal (4), street lamp (3), pole (1), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 13.6 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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