Cameras / California / Santa Monica
License plate readers in Santa Monica, CA
Volunteers have documented 90 automated license plate readers inside Santa Monica. That is the 44th-largest total among the 357 California cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. At 10.7 readers per square mile, Santa Monica sits in the most densely covered 5% of the 2,430 US cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 63%, followed by Motorola Solutions at 10%. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 15 on poles and 14 on street lamps.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 14, 2026 · figures last changed November 4, 2026.
90
readers documented
10.7
per square mile
44th
of 357 indexed California cities · 177th of 2,430 nationally
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 Safety57 · 63%
- Motorola Solutions9 · 10%
- Genetec3 · 3%
- Other vendors21 · 23%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 85 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (2), Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (1). All 719 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (15), street lamp (14), traffic signal (7)
- Coverage area
- 8.4 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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