Flock & ALPR cameras in Salt Lake City, UT
532 mapped ALPR cameras around metro Salt Lake City as of 3 September 2026, run by 38 operators — 72% of the vendor-tagged ones Flock Safety. 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, 14% of the metro — 199th-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 (7). Of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 23 are private.
87% of the mapped cameras around Salt Lake City (463 of 532) carry a facing direction — 177th 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 38 operators on the map — the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.
Salt Lake City ALPR cameras by the numbers
Four numbers that describe the Salt Lake City network, taken from the map above on the same day.
532
Mapped ALPR cameras in metro Salt Lake City
38
Separate operating agencies on the map
463
Cameras with a recorded facing direction
363
Cameras tagged Flock Safety
Read from the live map on 3 September 2026. 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 Richmond, VA and Bridgeport, CT, and 74th by operator count.
Mid-table on size; 177th of 251 on bearing coverage at 87%, and 199th on lead-operator share at 14%.
Mapped ALPR cameras
532 — 88th of 251
Separate operators on the map
38 — 74th of 251
Cameras per operator
14.0 — 142nd of 251
Largest operator's share
14% — 199th of 251
Share with a recorded bearing
87% — 177th of 251
Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 3 September 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
38 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
North Salt Lake Police Department
12 cameras
Layton Police Department
9 cameras
South Jordan Police Department
7 cameras
Lowe's
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 38 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (384 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 115 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 — 72% of the vendor-tagged cameras — but Motorola Solutions accounts for 135.
Flock Safety
363 cameras
Motorola Solutions
135 cameras
Axis Communications
6 cameras
Genetec
2 cameras
Verkada
1 camera
Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 25 of 532 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
463 of the 532 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
120 cameras
On a street lamp
21 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
71 cameras
Facing south
69 cameras
Facing southwest
66 cameras
Facing northwest
61 cameras
Facing east
52 cameras
Facing northeast
50 cameras
Facing north
48 cameras
Facing west
46 cameras
Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 68 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 does Salt Lake City have?
532 mapped cameras in a box roughly 50 miles across centred on Salt Lake City, as of 3 September 2026. Salt Lake City Police Department runs the most (73). Treat it as a documented minimum.
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 37 other operators. Private operators are part of it: The Home Depot (15), Lowe's (7). 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 463 of 532 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.