Flock & ALPR Cameras in Newark, California
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Newark — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Newark, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Newark itself.
The rest sit in Fremont (12), Union City (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Newark in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Newark
The readers mapped around Newark break down as 19 Flock Safety, 7 of unrecorded make, 1 CoStar. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Thornton Avenue — 6 readers
- Newark Boulevard — 3 readers
- Ardenwood Boulevard — 2 readers
- Channel Drive — 2 readers
- Central Avenue — 2 readers
- Tupelo Street — 2 readers
- Cabrillo Drive — 1 reader
- Nimitz Freeway — 1 reader
- Tan Oak Drive — 1 reader
- Redeker Place — 1 reader
- Commerce Drive — 1 reader
- Kaiser Drive — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Newark — all on the live map above.
Newark CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Newark CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 138 other agencies.
Newark 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 21 traffic.
Camera activity around Newark, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Newark. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Newark
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 Newark — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Newark (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Newark
What you can do in Newark
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 Newark
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).