Flock & ALPR Cameras in Albany, California
Volunteers have reported 59 automated license plate readers in and around Albany — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 59 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Albany, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 34 of them sit inside Albany itself.
The rest sit in Berkeley (24), Richmond (1).
13 of them name an operator in the record: Berkeley Police Department (9), California Highway Patrol (CHP) (3), California Highway Patrol (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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No new reports near Albany in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Albany
The readers mapped around Albany break down as 59 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Berkeley Police Department, California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Highway Patrol. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Solano Avenue — 6 readers
- Marin Avenue — 6 readers
- Gilman Street — 5 readers
- San Pablo Avenue — 4 readers
- University Avenue — 4 readers
- Cleveland Avenue — 4 readers
- Eastshore Freeway — 3 readers
- Ohlone Greenway — 3 readers
- Cedar Street — 2 readers
- Hearst Avenue — 2 readers
- Sixth Street — 2 readers
- John T. Knox Freeway — 2 readers
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Albany — all on the live map above.
Albany CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Albany CA PD runs 35 cameras of its own, has logged 140 plate-database searches, has captured 319,743 vehicle records. Its network connects to 289 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, Alameda County CA SO, Alhambra CA PD, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD, Arcadia CA PD.
Albany 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 52 traffic. Operators named on the record: Berkeley Police Department (9), California Highway Patrol (CHP) (3), California Highway Patrol (1).
Camera activity around Albany, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for Albany. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Albany
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 Albany — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Albany (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Albany
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Albany, CA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Albany, CA
What you can do in Albany
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 Albany
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).