Flock Cameras in Sacramento, CA: Locations, Map & Count

The operator table is headed by Sacramento Police Department at 177 cameras (15%), then Sacramento County Sheriff's Department at 113. Beyond the top of the table it is a long tail: 24 separate operators in all, ranking Sacramento 107th of 251 on operator count.

Not every reader here belongs to a public body. The Home Depot (30), Lowe's (19) appear among the largest operators, and 9 of the cameras carrying an operator type are recorded as private.

Bearing coverage — the share of cameras whose facing is recorded — is 90% around Sacramento, 143rd of 251. Cameras without a bearing still show on the map, but the app cannot route around them with any precision.

The paper trail is thin. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 7 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 24 distinct operators. That is a records gap rather than an absence of cameras, and it is why this page leans on mapped counts rather than agency filings.

The network is regional rather than municipal. Beyond Sacramento Police Department, the operator table runs through Elk Grove Police Department, Kaiser Permanente, Citrus Heights Police Department, Rancho Cordova Police Department and Roseville Police Department, with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department at 113 — none of which individually dominates the metro.

Read from the live map on 1 November 2026. Since 13 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 475 to 480 (+5) and the metro-box count moved from 1,157 to 1,164 (+7). The underlying records are OpenStreetMap entries plus community submissions — nobody who operates a camera is obliged to declare it, so these are the documented minimum rather than the full picture. The metro is a box roughly 50 miles across centred on Sacramento.

Sacramento ranks 45th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Philadelphia, PA and Scottsdale, AZ, and 107th by operator count.

Its cameras-per-operator figure of 48.5 ranks 7th, its lead operator's 15% share ranks 180th, and its 90% bearing coverage ranks 143rd — all of 251.

Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 1 November 2026. Metro areas are drawn as a box around the city centre, so neighbouring metros can share cameras and these counts must never be added together.

These are the 20 largest of 24 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (643 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 321 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 38 of 1,164 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.

They are easy to miss and hard to unsee — a small rectangular box on a narrow pole near a junction, generally with a solar panel and a stubby barrel lens. Where the data records how a camera around Sacramento is mounted, the split is:

One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Sacramento the mapped bearings distribute like this:

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 119 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 2 are tagged as omnidirectional.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.

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