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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pleasanton, California

Volunteers have reported 81 automated license plate readers in and around Pleasanton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 81 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pleasanton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 54 of them sit inside Pleasanton itself.

The rest sit in Dublin (17), Livermore (5).

5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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81
Reported cameras nearby
#38
of 898 California cities tracked
0.4%
of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 81 reported cameras around Pleasanton, 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 Pleasanton
+0 this week +2 last 30 days
  • Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Pleasanton

The readers mapped around Pleasanton break down as 60 Flock Safety, 14 Motorola Solutions, 6 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Santa Rita Road — 6 readers
  • Bernal Avenue — 5 readers
  • Valley Avenue — 5 readers
  • Hopyard Road — 4 readers
  • Pimlico Drive — 3 readers
  • Dublin Boulevard — 3 readers
  • Castlewood Drive — 3 readers
  • Fallon Road — 3 readers
  • Stoneridge Drive — 3 readers
  • West Jack London Boulevard — 3 readers
  • Brannigan Street — 2 readers
  • Sunol Boulevard — 2 readers

+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Pleasanton — all on the live map above.

Pleasanton CA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pleasanton CA PD runs 35 cameras of its own, has logged 263 plate-database searches, has captured 569,086 vehicle records. Its network connects to 331 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.

Connected agencies include: ACRATT -CA, Alameda CA PD, Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD.

Pleasanton 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 43 traffic.

Camera activity around Pleasanton, last 30 days

14 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Pleasanton. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.

What’s watching Pleasanton

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

The latest around Pleasanton

What you can do in Pleasanton

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 Pleasanton

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