Flock Cameras in Salt Lake City, UT: Locations, Map & Count
As of 13 October 2026, 298 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Salt Lake City (172 tagged Flock Safety), and 569 across the wider Salt Lake City metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, run by 37 operators. See each one on the live map below, which way it faces and its approximate capture zone. Free, no account. BanditKin is the private app that routes around them.
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What makes Salt Lake City different
Private operators show up in the top twenty, and 87% of the readers have a recorded facing — the Salt Lake City picture in brief.
Salt Lake City Police Department runs 73 mapped cameras here, 13% of the metro — 201st-highest concentration of the 251 metros tracked. Sandy Police Department follows with 41.
Retail plate readers are part of the picture around Salt Lake City: The Home Depot (15), Lowe's (12). Of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 25 are private.
87% of the mapped cameras around Salt Lake City (494 of 569) carry a facing direction — 179th of the 251 tracked metros. Bearings are what make camera-aware routing possible, so the higher that share, the more the avoidance layer can do here.
Public records cover 3 agencies around Salt Lake City in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance against 37 operators on the map — the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.
Salt Lake City Flock and ALPR cameras by the numbers
Four numbers that describe the Salt Lake City network, taken from the map above on the same day.
298
Flock & ALPR cameras within 10 miles of downtown Salt Lake City
569
Across the wider Salt Lake City metro (50-mile box)
37
Separate operating agencies on the map
494
Cameras with a recorded facing direction
Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 290 to 298 (+8) and the metro-box count moved from 539 to 569 (+30). 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 Salt Lake City.
How Salt Lake City compares
Mid-table on size among the 251 metro areas tracked, all counted the same way on the same day.
Salt Lake City ranks 88th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Jacksonville, FL and Baltimore, MD, and 76th by operator count.
Mid-table on size; 179th of 251 on bearing coverage at 87%, and 201st on lead-operator share at 13%.
Mapped ALPR cameras
569 — 88th of 251
Separate operators on the map
37 — 76th of 251
Cameras per operator
15.4 — 123rd of 251
Largest operator's share
13% — 201st of 251
Share with a recorded bearing
87% — 179th of 251
Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 13 October 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.
Which departments run the cameras around Salt Lake City
37 operators appear on the map around Salt Lake City; the 20 largest are listed here.
Salt Lake City Police Department
73 cameras
Sandy Police Department
41 cameras
West Valley City Police Department
36 cameras
West Jordan Police Department
35 cameras
Taylorsville Police Department
28 cameras
Murray Police Department
20 cameras
Millcreek Police Department
17 cameras
Centerville Police Department
17 cameras
The Home Depot
15 cameras
Midvale Police Department
15 cameras
Draper Police Department
12 cameras
Lowe's
12 cameras
North Salt Lake Police Department
12 cameras
Layton Police Department
9 cameras
South Jordan Police Department
7 cameras
Kearns Police Department
7 cameras
Summit County Sheriff's Office
7 cameras
Riverton Police Department
6 cameras
Magna Police Department
6 cameras
Lone Peak Police Department
5 cameras
These are the 20 largest of 37 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (382 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 148 cameras record no operator of any kind.
It isn't all Flock
'Flock' has become shorthand for any plate reader. Around Salt Lake City it is only part of the story — 70% of the vendor-tagged cameras — but Motorola Solutions accounts for 150.
Flock Safety
380 cameras
Motorola Solutions
150 cameras
Axis Communications
11 cameras
Genetec
2 cameras
Verkada
1 camera
Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 25 of 569 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.
Where they sit, and which way they face
494 of the 569 mapped cameras around Salt Lake City record which way they point, which is what makes routing around them possible.
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 Salt Lake City is mounted, the split is:
On a dedicated pole
123 cameras
On a street lamp
25 cameras
On a post
3 cameras
One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Salt Lake City the mapped bearings distribute like this:
Facing southeast
76 cameras
Facing south
73 cameras
Facing southwest
68 cameras
Facing northwest
61 cameras
Facing east
60 cameras
Facing northeast
55 cameras
Facing north
55 cameras
Facing west
46 cameras
Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 74 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 1 is tagged as omnidirectional.
Documented ALPR programs around Salt Lake City
Records-based sources document 3 agencies running plate readers around Salt Lake City. Some of the largest are below; the map above shows where the cameras actually are.
West Valley Police Department
The West Valley City Police Department has had Flock Safety automated license plate readers since at least 2025. Vendor: Flock Safety.
West Jordan Police Department
The West Jordan Police Department had Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of 2025. Vendor: Flock Safety.
South Salt Lake Police Department
The South Salt Lake Police had Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of 2025. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.
Seeing the cameras is free. Avoiding them is the app.
The map shows where the readers are and which way they face. BanditKin's navigation turns that into a routing preference: opt-in, field-of-view-aware, with a slider for how hard to try — and an honest fallback when no clean route exists.
This page is part of the Utah camera hub, which counts every camera inside the state line rather than by metro box. New to this? Read what ALPR cameras capture, how long it is kept, and who can search it. Not in Salt Lake City? Search the full map by any city.
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How many Flock cameras are in Salt Lake City?
As of 13 October 2026, 298 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Salt Lake City, 172 of them tagged Flock Safety. Across the wider metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, the map records 569 cameras run by 37 separate operators. That is a documented floor, not a full inventory: cameras appear as people map them, and 25 carry no manufacturer tag at all.
Where are Flock cameras in Salt Lake City?
Open the map at the top of this page: every mapped camera around Salt Lake City is plotted with its capture cone where a bearing is recorded. They cluster at junctions, on arterial roads and at the entrances to shopping centres. Missing one? Report it on the map.
Who operates the ALPR cameras around Salt Lake City?
Salt Lake City Police Department is the largest mapped operator with 73 cameras, ahead of Sandy Police Department's 41. Beyond them the network spreads across 35 other operators. Private operators are part of it: The Home Depot (15), Lowe's (12). The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 3 agencies across this area.
Can I avoid Flock cameras when driving in Salt Lake City?
Avoidance runs off recorded bearings, and Salt Lake City has 494 of 569 mapped cameras with one. BanditKin's navigation can route around them: it is opt-in, field-of-view-aware, and has a strength slider you control. Where no camera-free route exists it says so plainly and falls back to the normal route. This is a privacy preference — choosing not to be logged by a commercial surveillance network on public roads — and it works from public camera-location data.
Is this map free? Do I need an account?
Yes, the map is free, and no account is needed. It is built on public data — OpenStreetMap and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance — plus community reports. The BanditKin app adds the private navigation that routes around the cameras.