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Cameras in San Francisco
33 speed cameras, 509 mapped plate readers, 32 traffic cameras and a red light camera program in San Francisco.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · Caltrans (CC BY) · © OpenMapTiles
San Francisco, by camera type.
San Francisco: 509 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Daly City 102, South San Francisco 50, San Bruno 54 and Emeryville 38.
Speed cameras in San Francisco
All issuing tickets since Aug 5, 2025 (as reported).
6 more speed or red light cameras are on the map, counted apart from official lists.
The enabling law:
AB 645, California Vehicle Code §22425(a)
Red light cameras in San Francisco
San Francisco runs a red light camera program (running, as of Dec 2025), not yet on this map.
- Red light cameras · Running (as of Dec 2025) SFMTA ↗
The law, in short:
Veh. Code 21455.5 (red-light camera authority) (citation not yet confirmed).
License plate readers in San Francisco
509 plate readers are on the map in San Francisco, and 471 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. 469 of 509 say who runs them. San Francisco Police Department is tagged on 430.
First-mapped dates here run from May 6, 2024 to Nov 5, 2026. 287 of the 509 were first mapped in 2025, with 144 in January alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists San Francisco Police Department and Northern California Regional Intelligence Center as agencies that use plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in San Francisco
305 agencies can search reads from the San Francisco Police Department’s plate readers, by its posted sharing list (Oct 14, 2026). Its portal says it keeps each read for 365 days.
San Francisco Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- 305
- Other organizations on its list
- 4
- Keeps each read for
- 365 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 483
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 147
Its transparency portal, as of Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in San Francisco
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in San Francisco
32 in service. Freeways and state highways only.
Camera tickets in San Francisco
Know when cameras in San Francisco change.
Free email alerts for cameras on your routes that start issuing tickets. One summary email a month.
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- New cameras mapped or reported near you
- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
- Your street, your distance, the camera types you pick
156,883 cameras listed or mapped so far.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- SFMTA: speed camera list, checked Nov 7, 2026
- SFMTA: red light camera program, running, as of Dec 2025
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, speed and red light cameras, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- Caltrans CWWP2: camera list, updated daily, last Nov 7, 2026; CC BY
- US Census Bureau: city boundary (cartographic file 2025)
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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