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California speed cameras, city by city

Seven cities may run speed cameras under two state laws, all on a pilot that ends January 1, 2032. Two are fining drivers, two are sending warnings, and three are still being installed or waiting on a date. Here is where each one stands, with what the first two found.

7 cities 241 camera locations allowed 2 fining now 5 run by Verra Mobility

San Francisco

Fining since Aug 5, 2025

Oakland

Fining since Mar 15, 2026

Long Beach

Sending warnings since Oct 7

Los Angeles

Sending warnings since Oct 26

Malibu

Testing warnings due in Nov

San Jose

Being installed warnings Dec 14

Glendale

No date 9 sites planned

Status as of October 30, 2026, from the latest city or press report named under each city. Counts are camera locations; several cities put two cameras at each location.

Timeline

Warnings first, then fines, sixty days apart

State law makes every city send warnings for 60 days before the first fine. Amber is the warning period, red is fines. Hatched bars are announced dates that have not arrived yet.

Sending warnings Fining Installing or testing Announced, not yet started

City by city

Where each city stands

San Francisco

Fining since Aug 5, 2025

Locations: 33 (56 cameras). State law caps the city at 33.
Warnings began: March 2025, the first city in the state
Fines began: August 5, 2025
Vendor: Verra Mobility
Tickets so far: More than 163,900 citations and 553,600 warnings through the end of March 2026
Result: Speeding 10 mph or more over the limit is down 84% at camera locations, 18 months in

August 2025 alone produced 16,555 citations, about 500 a day, billed at more than $1.2 million with $600,000 collected by early October. After one notice, 63% of drivers have not had a second. Walk SF counted half of the early tickets at more than 15 mph over.

Sources: SFMTA, Oct 16, 2026 · KQED, Apr 29, 2026 · ABC7, Oct 5, 2025 · SF.gov, Aug 4, 2025

Oakland

Fining since Mar 15, 2026

Locations: 18 (35 cameras), all on the city's high injury network
Warnings began: January 14, 2026
Fines began: March 15, 2026
Vendor: Verra Mobility
Tickets so far: 193,508 citations in the first four months of fines (March 15 to July 15), plus 332,816 warnings since January 14
Result: Vehicles 11 mph or more over are down 70% on average across the 18 locations; the 85th percentile speed fell 3 mph

Violations go to about 1.5% of the vehicles that pass a camera, and the violators average 14 mph over. 58% of citations went to registered owners outside Oakland. The busiest camera, 73rd Avenue between Fresno and Krause southbound, averaged 253 violations a day. Daily violations fell 26% between the first and fourth month of fines.

Sources: City of Oakland six-month report, Aug 2026 · KQED, Aug 20, 2026 · City of Oakland, Mar 13, 2026

Long Beach

Sending warnings since Oct 7, 2026

Locations: 18 planned, two per council district; 16 installed on October 7 with two to come
Warnings began: October 7, 2026, through December 7
Fines begin: After December 7, 2026
Vendor: Verra Mobility
Why: 53 fatal crashes in 2025, the most in more than a decade; 38 so far in 2026

Half of the cameras are on streets with the most deadly or severe crashes; the other half are in school zones or where street racing happens. The city projects about $5 million a year in tickets, half for running the program and half for street safety fixes. A new state law lets Long Beach add two cameras on Pacific Coast Highway from January 1, 2027.

Sources: Long Beach Post, Oct 7, 2026 · City News Service, Oct 7, 2026 · Hoodline, Oct 7, 2026

Los Angeles

Sending warnings since Oct 26, 2026

Locations: 125, the most of any city; 26 sending warnings and 99 being installed as of October 28
Warnings began: October 26, 2026, as each camera switches on
Fines begin: About December 25, 2026, 60 days after the first cameras
Vendor: Verra Mobility, $4,450 per camera per month, not to exceed $38,375,000 through January 1, 2032
Where to look: The map, with the posted limit and the speed that gets a ticket at every camera, and who gets the money

LA ran red-light cameras until July 2011 and ended them after a Controller audit found a net loss and that only 23% of fines were collected. This program's contract requires full cost recovery each year.

Sources: laspeedcameras.org, built from LADOT's camera layer and district lists · Council file 26-0707, LADOT report, May 8, 2026

Malibu (Pacific Coast Highway)

Testing, warnings due in November

Locations: 5, up to 10 cameras, on 21 miles of PCH: Decker Canyon, Guernsey to Morning View, Latigo Canyon, Carbon Beach Terrace to Carbon Canyon, Tuna Canyon
Law: SB 1297, signed September 27, 2024, a separate bill for this one highway
Warnings begin: November 2026, pushed back from late September while a traffic study on the eastern sites finishes
Fines begin: After the 60-day warning period, so likely January 2027
Vendor: Not named in the reports read

In a nine-day test from September 16 to 24, four cameras recorded about 100,000 speeding violations, 86% of them in eastern Malibu. The bill followed the October 17, 2023 crash that killed four Pepperdine students; more than 60 people have died on Malibu's PCH since 2010.

Sources: LAist, Oct 4, 2026 · Patch, Oct 1, 2026 · Malibu Times, Aug 21, 2026

San Jose

Being installed, warnings Dec 14

Locations: 33, two cameras each, at least one per council district; 4 installed as of October 23
Warnings begin: December 14, 2026
Fines begin: February 12, 2027
Vendor: Verra Mobility; the city estimates $15.4 to $17.9 million to install and run over five years
Why: 41 traffic deaths so far in 2026, down from 65 in 2022

The program waited on an $8.5 million federal grant that was withheld, so the city paid from local revenue. Only the rear plate is captured; images are deleted within five days if no violation is issued.

Sources: KQED, Oct 23, 2026 · KALW, Oct 27, 2026

Glendale

No start date announced

Locations: 9, chosen from 16 candidates, on Glendale Avenue, Brand, Glenoaks, San Fernando Road, Central and Chevy Chase
Contract: Council approved a vendor contract on December 16, 2025; the vendor is not named on the city page
City schedule: Warnings in mid-2026, then fines after 60 days. That date passed without an announcement.
Status: Patch asked the city in October and called it unclear

Sources: City of Glendale program page · Patch, Oct 2, 2026 · Crescenta Valley Weekly, Feb 5, 2026

What the first two cities found

Speeding drops fast and stays down

84%

fewer vehicles 10 mph or more over, San Francisco, 18 months in

SFMTA, Oct 16, 2026

70%

fewer vehicles 11 mph or more over, Oakland, six months in

City of Oakland, Aug 2026

63%

of San Francisco drivers with one notice never got a second

SFMTA, Oct 16, 2026

58%

of Oakland's citations went to owners outside Oakland

City of Oakland, Aug 2026

1.5%

of vehicles passing an Oakland camera got a violation

KQED, Aug 20, 2026

4 mph

drop in average speed on 15 San Francisco streets in the first months

KQED, Oct 3, 2025

Both cities count fewer violations each month as drivers learn where the cameras are. Oakland's daily violations fell 26% between the first and fourth month of fines. San Francisco's share of ticketed drivers at 16 to 20 mph over fell from 43% in August 2025 to 24% in March 2026.

Scale

What those rates would mean at 125 cameras

This is arithmetic on the two cities' published counts, not a forecast. LA's limits, streets and drivers differ, and both cities' rates fell month by month.

City	Citations	Days	Locations	Per location per day	LA at that rate, per day
San Francisco, Aug 5, 2025 to Mar 31, 2026	163,900	239	33
Oakland, Mar 15 to Jul 15, 2026	193,508	122	18

San Francisco's count is "more than 163,900" (KQED, Apr 29, 2026). Oakland's is the city's own six-month report. Oakland's rate is higher partly because its cameras sit on the city's highest-injury streets and partly because Oakland's first four months were busier than San Francisco's average over eight. The Who profits page uses a slider for this, so either rate can be tried there.

The fines

The same schedule in every city

Over the limit	What you get
11 to 15 mph	$50. A car's first one in a city is a warning notice, not a fine.
16 to 25 mph	$100
26 mph and up	$200
100 mph and up	$500

Tickets are civil, add no points, and do not reach your insurer. Fines are reduced for drivers who qualify as low income, and the law allows payment plans and community service instead of paying. Each city's cameras read at 11 mph over the posted limit.

The law

Two bills, one pilot, one end date

AB 645 (2023) lets six cities run speed cameras: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Glendale and Long Beach. Each city's count is capped (125, 33, 18, 33, 9 and 18). Cameras must sit on streets with a record of crashes, in school zones or where street racing happens, and every program ends January 1, 2032.
SB 1297 (signed September 27, 2024) adds Malibu, for Pacific Coast Highway only: five systems with up to ten cameras. As introduced it also covered PCH and Lincoln in Santa Monica and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills; the Senate cut those.
SB 1279 (signed September 27, 2026) lets Long Beach add two more cameras on its stretch of PCH from January 1, 2027, per City News Service.
Revenue must first cover the program's cost, then go to street safety fixes, what the law calls traffic calming, within three years, or to the state's Active Transportation Program.

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What this page cannot tell you

Glendale's current status: the city page was last updated at the December 2025 contract vote, and no October report could be found. Malibu's exact November date and its vendor. San Francisco's collections after October 2025 and Oakland's revenue, which neither city has published. Whether Long Beach's last two cameras are up. Which outlets' counts of LA's cameras are current; the site's own count is from the October 29 refresh.

Numbers here are as each source printed them on the date named. When two sources disagreed (Long Beach's fine date is December 7 in three reports and December 8 in one), the city's own figure was used.