Flock & ALPR Cameras in Piedmont, California
Volunteers have reported 185 automated license plate readers in and around Piedmont — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 185 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Piedmont, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 33 of them sit inside Piedmont itself.
The rest sit in Oakland (150), Berkeley (2).
167 of them name an operator in the record: California Highway Patrol (CHP) (105), City of Piedmont (44), Lakeshore Homes Association (LHA) (8), Oakland Police Department (4), Lakeshore Avenue Business Improvement District (LABID) (2), UCANN (2), California Highway Patrol (1), Piedmont (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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- Mar 5, 2024 On the agenda: Piedmont Public Safety Committee - May 26, 2022 — Public Safety Camera (Mar 5)
- Mar 5, 2024 On the agenda: Piedmont Public Safety Committee - Jul 28, 2022 — Public Safety Camera (Mar 5)
- Dec 18, 2023 On the agenda: Piedmont City Council Meeting - Dec 18, 2023 — Flock Safety (Dec 18)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
- Sep 11 Neology, Inc. camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Piedmont
The readers mapped around Piedmont break down as 179 Flock Safety, 4 Flock Group Inc., 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: California Highway Patrol (CHP), Lakeshore Homes Association (LHA), City of Piedmont, Oakland Police Department, Lakeshore Avenue Business Improvement District (LABID). The first camera here was reported in Feb 2014; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- MacArthur Boulevard — 18 readers
- Moraga Avenue — 7 readers
- Coolidge Avenue — 6 readers
- Fruitvale Avenue — 6 readers
- Warren Freeway — 6 readers
- MacArthur Freeway — 6 readers
- Broadway — 5 readers
- Park Boulevard — 5 readers
- Grove Shafter Freeway — 5 readers
- 35th Avenue — 5 readers
- Grand Avenue — 5 readers
- Mountain Boulevard — 4 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Piedmont — all on the live map above.
Piedmont CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Piedmont CA PD runs 58 cameras of its own, has logged 209 plate-database searches, has captured 174,319 vehicle records. Its network connects to 80 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Piedmont 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 164 traffic. Operators named on the record: California Highway Patrol (CHP) (105), Lakeshore Homes Association (LHA) (8), City of Piedmont (4).
Camera activity around Piedmont, last 30 days
5 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Piedmont. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Piedmont
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 Piedmont — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Piedmont (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Piedmont
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Piedmont, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Piedmont, CA
- On the agenda: Piedmont Public Safety Committee - May 26, 2022 — Public Safety Camera (Mar 5)
- On the agenda: Piedmont Public Safety Committee - Jul 28, 2022 — Public Safety Camera (Mar 5)
What you can do in Piedmont
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 Piedmont
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).