Flock & ALPR Cameras in Alameda, California
Volunteers have reported 121 automated license plate readers in and around Alameda — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 127 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Alameda, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 48 of them sit inside Alameda itself.
The rest sit in Oakland (79).
68 of them name an operator in the record: California Highway Patrol (CHP) (66), Flock Safety (1), The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Alameda
The readers mapped around Alameda break down as 125 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: California Highway Patrol (CHP), Flock Safety, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Nimitz Freeway — 12 readers
- Foothill Boulevard — 10 readers
- International Boulevard — 9 readers
- High Street — 6 readers
- Park Street — 5 readers
- 66th Avenue — 4 readers
- Otis Drive — 4 readers
- 29th Avenue — 3 readers
- 55th Avenue — 3 readers
- Fruitvale Avenue — 3 readers
- 23rd Avenue — 3 readers
- Oakland — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Alameda — all on the live map above.
Alameda CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Alameda CA PD runs 36 cameras of its own, has logged 216 plate-database searches, has captured 493,915 vehicle records. Its network connects to 81 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Alameda in the Alameda County picture
Alameda County has 1,204 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #235 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.9% nationally. That’s across 1,651,949 residents and 3,687 road miles. By road density that is 0.33 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 116 traffic, 4 street, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: California Highway Patrol (CHP) (66), Flock Safety (1), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Alameda, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Alameda. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Alameda
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 Alameda — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Alameda (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Alameda
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Alameda, CA
- Letters: Alameda County sheriff falls short on Flock transparency
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Alameda, CA
- Alameda police tout license plate reader in arrest of driver
What you can do in Alameda
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 Alameda
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).