Flock & ALPR Cameras in Redwood City, California
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Redwood City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Redwood City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Redwood City itself.
The rest sit in San Carlos (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (4). 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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No new reports near Redwood City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:35 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Redwood City
The readers mapped around Redwood City break down as 17 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2024; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Woodside Road — 5 readers
- Veterans Boulevard — 3 readers
- Whipple Avenue — 2 readers
- El Camino Real — 2 readers
- East Bayshore Road — 1 reader
- Alameda de las Pulgas — 1 reader
- Seaport Boulevard — 1 reader
- Broadway — 1 reader
- Chesapeake Drive — 1 reader
- Hinman Road — 1 reader
- Industrial Road — 1 reader
Redwood City CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Redwood City CA PD runs 25 cameras of its own, has logged 412 plate-database searches, has captured 723,482 vehicle records. Its network connects to 195 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda CA PD, Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Antioch CA PD, Atherton CA PD, Belmont CA PD, Belvedere CA PD, Benicia CA PD.
Redwood City in the San Mateo County picture
San Mateo County has 628 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #164 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.6% nationally. That’s across 745,100 residents and 1,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.34 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (4).
What’s watching Redwood City
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 Redwood City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Redwood City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Redwood City
- Redwood City to review license plate reader program report, host public forums
- Redwood City reportedly ending Flock Safety camera contract
- Redwood City to let Flock Safety contract expire over automatic license plate readers concerns
- Redwood City Police admit to improper street camera data sharing
What you can do in Redwood City
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 Redwood City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).