License plate readers in Portland, ME
Volunteers have documented 22 automated license plate readers inside Portland. No other Maine city in this index has more, and Portland alone accounts for 25% of every reader documented in the state. Its 1.0 readers per square mile spread across 21.5 square miles — thinner coverage than 75% of the 2,406 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 95% — are Motorola Solutions units.
Checked against OpenStreetMap October 14, 2026 · figures last changed October 14, 2026.
22
readers documented
1.0
per square mile
1st
of 2 indexed Maine cities · 1,132nd of 2,406 nationally
25%
of Maine’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 Safety1 · 5%
- Motorola Solutions21 · 95%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 22 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Portland Police (1). All 727 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- Coverage area
- 21.5 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Motorola Solutions camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · Maine ALPR law (21 days 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.