Cameras / California / San Marcos
License plate readers in San Marcos, CA
Volunteers have documented 27 automated license plate readers inside San Marcos. That is the 187th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.1% of the statewide total. Its 1.1 readers per square mile spread across 24.6 square miles — thinner coverage than 69% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 96% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
27
readers documented
1.1
per square mile
187th
of 329 indexed California cities
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 Safety26 · 96%
- Unknown1 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 24 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- pole (1), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 24.6 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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