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California · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lafayette, California

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Lafayette — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lafayette, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lafayette itself.

The rest sit in Moraga (1).

1 of them name an operator in the record: Moraga PD (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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Reported cameras nearby
#835
of 898 California cities tracked
0.1%
of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Lafayette, California
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Lafayette

No new reports near Lafayette in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 13:38 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Lafayette

The readers mapped around Lafayette break down as 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Moraga PD. Every report here dates to Sep 2025.

  • Moraga — 1 reader

Lafayette 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.

Operators named on the record: Moraga PD (1).

What’s watching Lafayette

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 Lafayette — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lafayette (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Lafayette

What you can do in Lafayette

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.

Cameras near Lafayette

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).