Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hayward, California
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Hayward — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hayward
The readers mapped around Hayward break down as 25 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: California Highway Patrol. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- D Street — 4 readers
- Mission Boulevard — 4 readers
- Jackson Street — 3 readers
- Foothill Boulevard — 2 readers
- Amaranth Loop — 2 readers
- B Street — 2 readers
- Harder Road — 1 reader
- Schafer Road — 1 reader
- A Street — 1 reader
- West Tennyson Road — 1 reader
- Tennyson Road — 1 reader
- Huntwood Avenue — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Hayward — all on the live map above.
Hayward CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hayward CA PD runs 82 cameras of its own, has logged 1,074 plate-database searches, has captured 1,103,825 vehicle records. Its network connects to 136 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Hayward 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 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: California Highway Patrol (1).
Camera activity around Hayward, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hayward. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Hayward
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 Hayward — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hayward (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hayward
- On the agenda: Hayward City Council — Automated License Plate (Aug 18)
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Hayward, CA
What you can do in Hayward
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 Hayward
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).