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Cameras in San Jose
612 mapped plate readers, a speed camera program and a red light camera program in San Jose.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles
San Jose, by camera type.
San Jose: 612 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Campbell 25, Santa Clara 69, Los Gatos 48 and Milpitas 65.
Speed cameras in San Jose
San Jose runs a speed camera program (approved, checked Oct 23, 2026), not yet on this map.
- Speed cameras · Approved (checked Oct 23, 2026) Public list City of San José DOT ↗ · current status not dated
The law, in short:
AB 645 (Ch. 808, Stats. 2023); Veh. Code 22425-22431; sunset January 1, 2032.
Red light cameras in San Jose
San Jose runs a red light camera program (running, as of Mar 2026), not yet on this map.
- Red light cameras · Running (as of Mar 2026) City of San José ↗
The law, in short:
Veh. Code 21455.5 (red-light camera authority) (citation not yet confirmed).
License plate readers in San Jose
612 plate readers are on the map in San Jose, and 602 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them. San Jose Police Department is tagged on 1.
First-mapped dates here run from Nov 20, 2024 to Nov 2, 2026. 389 of the 612 were first mapped in 2025, with 287 in February alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists 3 agencies based in San Jose that use plate readers, among them San Jose Police Department.
Who can search plate reads in San Jose
306 agencies can search reads from the San Jose Police Department’s plate readers, by its posted sharing list (Oct 14, 2026). Its portal says it keeps each read for 30 days.
San Jose Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- 306
- Other organizations on its list
- 6
- Keeps each read for
- 30 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 515
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 150
Its transparency portal, as of Oct 13, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in San Jose
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in San Jose
No traffic camera feed is listed for San Jose yet.
Camera tickets in San Jose
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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.
- City of San José DOT: speed camera program, approved, checked Oct 23, 2026
- City of San José: red light camera program, running, as of Mar 2026
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, 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
- 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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