California surveillance index

Flock Camera Reports in California

Browse 21 metro-area reports connected to California. Every report uses the same 25-mile counting radius and separates explicitly Flock-tagged records from other or unspecified ALPRs.

Source data through October 3, 2026 · Counts are crowdsourced observations, not an official inventory

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City and Metro Reports

Metro circles can overlap and can cross state lines. For that reason, this page does not add the metro counts together or label the result a statewide total. Open a local report to see its exact radius, Flock share, source tags, and nearby comparisons.

21Associated metro reports

339Median report total

88.5%Median Flock share

3,322Highest local report total

State rank	Metro report	All ALPRs	Tagged Flock	Flock share	Density / 100 sq mi	National rank
#1	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont	3,322	3,027	91.1%	169.2	#5
#2	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim	3,250	2,361	72.6%	165.5	#6
#3	Santa Cruz-Watsonville	959	828	86.3%	48.8	#25
#4	Vallejo	764	676	88.5%	38.9	#31
#5	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom	739	549	74.3%	37.6	#32
#6	Stockton-Lodi	641	500	78%	32.6	#41
#7	Napa	576	559	97%	29.3	#46
#8	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad	438	296	67.6%	22.3	#62
#9	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara	374	338	90.4%	19	#74
#10	Modesto	361	210	58.2%	18.4	#77
#11	Santa Rosa-Petaluma	339	336	99.1%	17.3	#84
#12	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura	318	292	91.8%	16.2	#88
#13	Fresno	303	278	91.7%	15.4	#94
#14	Bakersfield-Delano	270	240	88.9%	13.8	#106
#15	Yuba City	186	166	89.2%	9.5	#144
#16	Merced	163	113	69.3%	8.3	#168
#17	El Centro	157	140	89.2%	8	#174
#18	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles	141	71	50.4%	7.2	#187
#19	Chico	114	69	60.5%	5.8	#221
#20	Redding	74	29	39.2%	3.8	#265
#21	Hanford-Corcoran	70	64	91.4%	3.6	#269

State rank orders associated reports by documented total. It is not a statewide camera total.

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