Cameras / California / Sunnyvale
License plate readers in Sunnyvale, CA
Volunteers have documented 29 automated license plate readers inside Sunnyvale. That is the 181st-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.1% of the statewide total. Its 1.3 readers per square mile spread across 22.1 square miles — thinner coverage than 61% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 97% — are Flock Safety units. Every mount volunteers recorded here is the same kind: poles.
Updated August 14, 2026.
29
readers documented
1.3
per square mile
181st
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 Safety28 · 97%
- Other vendors1 · 3%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 18 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety (16), Sunnyvale DPS (2), Santa Clara Police Department (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (10)
- Coverage area
- 22.1 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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