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Flock cameras in San Francisco, CA
464 licence plate readers are documented in San Francisco — 437 are tagged as Flock Safety equipment and 27 come from other ALPR vendors. 98% have a recorded facing direction, so you can see what each one watches.
Where they are
Tap a camera for its recorded facing direction. Red is Flock Safety; amber is every other brand. Positions are community-mapped estimates and may be a few metres out.
By brand
| Brand | Cameras | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flock Safety | 437 | 94.2% | |
| Bosch | 5 | 1.1% | |
| Motorola Solutions | 4 | 0.9% | |
| Neology | 2 | 0.4% | |
| CoStar | 1 | 0.2% |
Recorded operators
| Operator | Cameras |
|---|---|
| San Francisco Police Department | 325 |
| Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District | 8 |
| St Francis Wood HOA | 5 |
| St. Francis Homes Association | 4 |
| Stonestown Galleria Mall | 3 |
| Lowe's | 2 |
| Total Wine | 2 |
| Flock Safety | 1 |
Operator is recorded by volunteers and is missing for most cameras, so these are documented floors rather than totals.
Get an alert before you pass one in San Francisco
All 464 of these readers ship inside the app. You get a warning as you approach, and a second alert if you enter a camera's field of view — with nothing leaving your phone.
What this means if you drive here
A plate reader is not a proximity sensor. It is a fixed camera aimed one way down one road, so whether it recorded your vehicle depends on the direction you were travelling relative to the lens — not simply how close you got. In San Francisco, 98% of documented readers have a recorded bearing, which is what makes that question answerable.
Readers cluster where every vehicle must pass: city entrances and exits, approaches to major junctions, and shop car park lanes. If you leave your neighbourhood the same way each morning, you are almost certainly passing the same cameras every day.
Want to check a specific one? Work out whether a camera photographed your car, or read who can access the data once it is recorded.
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Camera data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), from the ALPR slice the DeFlock community crowdsources. Coverage reflects volunteer mapping effort — a low count can mean few cameras, few mappers, or both. Flock Camera is not affiliated with Flock Safety, Inc.