License plate readers in Atlanta, GA
Volunteers have documented 648 automated license plate readers inside Atlanta. No other Georgia city in this index has more, and Atlanta alone accounts for 6.4% of every reader documented in the state. At 4.8 per square mile it is more densely covered than 87% of the 2,400 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's.
Checked against OpenStreetMap October 9, 2026 · figures last changed October 7, 2026.
648
readers documented
4.8
per square mile
1st
of 120 indexed Georgia cities · 6th of 2,400 nationally
6.4%
of Georgia’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 Safety540 · 83%
- Motorola Solutions21 · 3%
- Genetec67 · 10%
- Other vendors15 · 2%
- Unknown5 · 1%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 613 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Atlanta Police Department (28), Flock Safety (4), Lowe's (3). All 725 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (85), street lamp (30), traffic signal (10), post (6), telephone pole (3)
- Coverage area
- 135.3 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · Georgia ALPR law (30 months retention)
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, or download the aggregates in bulk.