Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kensington, California
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Kensington — 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 Kensington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Kensington itself.
The rest sit in Berkeley (3), El Cerrito (1), Richmond (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Berkeley Police Department (2). 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 Kensington in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kensington
The readers mapped around Kensington break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Berkeley Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Arlington Avenue — 3 readers
- Marin Avenue — 1 reader
- San Pablo Dam Road — 1 reader
- Oak View Avenue — 1 reader
- Colusa Avenue — 1 reader
- Grizzly Peak Boulevard — 1 reader
Kensington CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kensington CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 41 other agencies.
Connected agencies include: Albany CA PD, Contra Costa County CA SO, Danville CA PD, El Cerrito CA PD, Moraga CA PD.
Kensington in the Contra Costa County picture
Contra Costa County has 436 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #803 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,161,458 residents and 4,683 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Berkeley Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Kensington, last 30 days
5 removed in our hourly change log for Kensington. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Kensington
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 Kensington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kensington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kensington
What you can do in Kensington
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 Kensington
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).