Flock & ALPR Cameras in Brisbane, California
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Brisbane — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Brisbane, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Brisbane itself.
The rest sit in South San Francisco (1).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Brisbane Police Department (6), South San Francisco Police Department (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 Brisbane in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Brisbane
The readers mapped around Brisbane break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Brisbane Police Department, South San Francisco Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2024; the most recent in Jul 2025.
- Sierra Point Parkway — 5 readers
- Bayshore Boulevard — 2 readers
- Airport Boulevard — 1 reader
Brisbane CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Brisbane CA PD runs 16 cameras of its own, has logged 30 plate-database searches, has captured 200,798 vehicle records. Its network connects to 142 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, Antioch CA PD, Belmont CA PD, Belvedere CA PD, Benicia CA PD, Berkeley CA PD.
Brisbane in the San Mateo County picture
San Mateo County has 628 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #164 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.6% nationally. That’s across 745,100 residents and 1,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.34 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Brisbane Police Department (6), South San Francisco Police Department (1).
What’s watching Brisbane
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 Brisbane — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Brisbane (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Brisbane
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What you can do in Brisbane
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 Brisbane
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).