Flock & ALPR Cameras in Berkeley, California
Volunteers have reported 47 automated license plate readers in and around Berkeley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 47 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Berkeley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 41 of them sit inside Berkeley itself.
The rest sit in Oakland (6).
31 of them name an operator in the record: Berkeley Police Department (25), California Highway Patrol (CHP) (6). 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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- May 8, 2026 On the agenda: Berkeley Special City Council Meeting - 5:00 p.m. - May 08, 2026 — Flock Safety (May 8)
- Apr 21, 2026 On the agenda: Berkeley Regular City Council Meeting - 6:00 p.m. - Apr 21, 2026 — Flock Safety (Apr 21)
- Mar 24, 2026 On the agenda: Berkeley Regular City Council Meeting - 6:00 p.m. - Mar 24, 2026 — Flock Safety (Mar 24)
- Mar 10, 2026 On the agenda: Berkeley Regular City Council Meeting - 6:00 p.m. - Mar 10, 2026 — Flock Camera (Mar 10)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Berkeley in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Berkeley
The readers mapped around Berkeley break down as 45 Flock Safety, 1 Flock Group Inc.. Named operators in the reports: Berkeley Police Department, California Highway Patrol (CHP). The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Ashby Avenue — 8 readers
- College Avenue — 4 readers
- Sacramento Street — 3 readers
- San Pablo Avenue — 2 readers
- Grizzly Peak Boulevard — 2 readers
- University Avenue — 2 readers
- Alcatraz Avenue — 2 readers
- The Uplands — 2 readers
- Florio Street — 1 reader
- Durant Avenue — 1 reader
- Sutter Street — 1 reader
- Park Gate — 1 reader
+ 17 more streets and roads mapped around Berkeley — all on the live map above.
Berkeley CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Berkeley CA PD runs 52 cameras of its own, has logged 408 plate-database searches, has captured 765,621 vehicle records. Its network connects to 71 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Benicia CA PD, Burlingame CA PD, California State Parks, Central Marin CA PD, Colma CA PD.
Berkeley 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 46 traffic. Operators named on the record: Berkeley Police Department (25), California Highway Patrol (CHP) (6).
Camera activity around Berkeley, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Berkeley. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Berkeley
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 Berkeley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Berkeley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Berkeley
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Berkeley, CA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Berkeley, CA
- Berkeley — the first U.S. sanctuary city — reconsiders surveillance expansion with Flock
- On the agenda: Berkeley Special City Council Meeting - 5:00 p.m. - May 08, 2026 — Flock Safety (May 8)
What you can do in Berkeley
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.
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Cameras near Berkeley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).