Flock & ALPR Cameras in Benicia, California
Volunteers have reported 47 automated license plate readers in and around Benicia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 17 Neology, Inc. camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Benicia
The readers mapped around Benicia break down as 46 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 1st Street — 5 readers
- Military East — 5 readers
- Lake Herman Road — 5 readers
- East 2nd Street — 3 readers
- Southampton Road — 3 readers
- East 5th Street — 2 readers
- Bayshore Road — 2 readers
- Park Road — 2 readers
- Industrial Way — 2 readers
- Goodyear Road — 2 readers
- Rose Drive — 2 readers
- East I Street — 1 reader
+ 12 more streets and roads mapped around Benicia — all on the live map above.
Benicia CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Benicia CA PD runs 52 cameras of its own. Its network connects to 140 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Benicia in the Solano County picture
Solano County has 246 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #446 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.8% nationally. That’s across 450,824 residents and 3,297 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 46 traffic.
Camera activity around Benicia, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Benicia. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Benicia
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 Benicia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Benicia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Benicia
- What Benicia'S Own Records Reveal About Its Flock Safety Surveillance Deal
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Benicia, CA
- Robbery suspects arrested in Benicia with help of license plate reader
- Two arrested for Benicia bank robbery following ALPR alert
What you can do in Benicia
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 Benicia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).