Cameras / California / Santa Barbara
License plate readers in Santa Barbara, CA
Volunteers have documented 16 automated license plate readers inside Santa Barbara. That is the 261st-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.1% of the statewide total. Its 0.8 readers per square mile spread across 19.5 square miles — thinner coverage than 81% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 88% of them.
Updated August 14, 2026.
16
readers documented
0.8
per square mile
261st
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 Safety14 · 88%
- Other vendors1 · 6%
- Unknown1 · 6%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 15 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Santa Barbara Police Department (12). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (4), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 19.5 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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