Flock & ALPR Cameras in Salt Lake City, Utah
Volunteers have reported 56 automated license plate readers in and around Salt Lake City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Paused
Salt Lake City is on the record here. Salt Lake City Council paused its license plate reader plan amid privacy concerns.
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No new reports near Salt Lake City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Salt Lake City
The readers mapped around Salt Lake City break down as 34 Motorola Solutions, 17 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Redwood Road — 7 readers
- 800 South — 5 readers
- 400 South — 4 readers
- North Temple — 4 readers
- 500 South — 2 readers
- State Street — 2 readers
- West Temple — 2 readers
- 600 South — 2 readers
- 700 East — 2 readers
- 300 West — 2 readers
- 500 North — 2 readers
- 600 North — 2 readers
+ 17 more streets and roads mapped around Salt Lake City — all on the live map above.
Salt Lake City in the Salt Lake County picture
Salt Lake County has 329 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,089 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,184,689 residents and 4,609 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 51 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (1).
Camera activity around Salt Lake City, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Salt Lake City. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Salt Lake City
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Salt Lake City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Salt Lake City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Salt Lake City
- Utah weighs new guardrails for license plate reader data as Salt Lake City debate intensifies
- Salt Lake City Council members face intimidation at their doorsteps over Flock-like cameras
- As Salt Lake City weighs limits on license plate cameras, police make their case
- Questions remain about the use and misuse of automatic license plate readers in Salt Lake City
What you can do in Salt Lake City
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Salt Lake City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).