Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oakland, California
Volunteers have reported 63 automated license plate readers in and around Oakland — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Removed
Oakland is on the record here. Alameda Health System removed a license plate reader camera from Highland Hospital in Oakland.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 92 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Oakland, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 83 of them sit inside Oakland itself.
The rest sit in Alameda (9).
69 of them name an operator in the record: California Highway Patrol (CHP) (50), California Highway Patrol (11), Oakland Police Department (7), Flock Safety (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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- Jul 21, 2026 Oakland City Council to Review 2025 Annual Surveillance Technology Reports
- Jul 14, 2026 On the agenda: Oakland Public Safety Committee — License Plate Reader (Jul 14)
- Jul 1, 2026 On the agenda: Oakland Regular Meeting - Jun 30, 2026 — Automated License Plate (Jul 1)
- Apr 21, 2026 On the agenda: Oakland Regular Meeting - Apr 21, 2026 — Flock Safety (Apr 21)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Oakland
The readers mapped around Oakland break down as 86 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 2 CoStar. Named operators in the reports: California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Highway Patrol, Oakland Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Broadway — 7 readers
- 5th Street — 7 readers
- 7th Street — 6 readers
- Castro Street — 5 readers
- Harrison Street — 5 readers
- Nimitz Freeway — 4 readers
- 27th Street — 4 readers
- Brush Street — 4 readers
- Grand Avenue — 3 readers
- 17th Street — 3 readers
- West Grand Avenue — 3 readers
- Market Street — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Oakland — all on the live map above.
Oakland CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Oakland CA PD runs 293 cameras of its own, has logged 2,443 plate-database searches, has captured 1,478,187 vehicle records. Its network connects to 123 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Oakland 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 89 traffic. Operators named on the record: California Highway Patrol (CHP) (50), California Highway Patrol (11), Oakland Police Department (7).
Camera activity around Oakland, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Oakland. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Oakland
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 Oakland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oakland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oakland
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Oakland, CA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Oakland, CA
- Oakland City Council to Review 2025 Annual Surveillance Technology Reports
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Oakland, CA
What you can do in Oakland
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 Oakland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).