License plate readers in Sarasota, FL
Volunteers have documented 40 automated license plate readers inside Sarasota. That is the 39th-largest total among the 169 Florida cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. At 2.7 per square mile it is more densely covered than 74% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 90% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
40
readers documented
2.7
per square mile
39th
of 169 indexed Florida cities
0.4%
of Florida’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 Safety36 · 90%
- Motorola Solutions2 · 5%
- Genetec1 · 3%
- Other vendors1 · 3%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 38 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- SarasotaPoliceDepartment (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (8), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 14.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
These locations were documented in the field by OpenStreetMap volunteers and refresh automatically every six hours. They are evidence of where cameras have been seen — not a complete or official inventory, and cameras may have been added or removed since documentation. Corrections happen upstream: edit OpenStreetMap and this page will update. Read more in our methodology.