Cameras / California / Santa Monica
License plate readers in Santa Monica, CA
Volunteers have documented 74 automated license plate readers inside Santa Monica. That is the 56th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. At 8.8 readers per square mile, Santa Monica sits in the most densely covered 5% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 65%, followed by Motorola Solutions at 12%. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 15 on poles and 13 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
74
readers documented
8.8
per square mile
56th
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 Safety48 · 65%
- Motorola Solutions9 · 12%
- Genetec3 · 4%
- Other vendors14 · 19%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 69 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (2), Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transpor (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (15), street lamp (13), traffic signal (7)
- Coverage area
- 8.4 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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