Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Richmond, California
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around North Richmond — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Richmond, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside North Richmond itself.
The rest sit in Richmond (6), San Pablo (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Bay Area Toll Authority (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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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in North Richmond
The readers mapped around North Richmond break down as 2 of unrecorded make, 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Bay Area Toll Authority. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- John T. Knox Freeway — 2 readers
- 7th Street — 1 reader
- Lincoln Avenue — 1 reader
North Richmond 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 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Bay Area Toll Authority (2).
Camera activity around North Richmond, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for North Richmond. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching North Richmond
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 North Richmond — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Richmond (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Richmond
What you can do in North Richmond
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 North Richmond
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).