Cameras / California / Santa Clara
License plate readers in Santa Clara, CA
Volunteers have documented 77 automated license plate readers inside Santa Clara. That is the 49th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. At 4.2 per square mile it is more densely covered than 86% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit.
Updated August 14, 2026.
77
readers documented
4.2
per square mile
49th
of 329 indexed California cities
0.4%
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 Safety77 · 100%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 55 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Santa Clara Police Department (35). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (14), street lamp (3)
- Coverage area
- 18.3 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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