Flock & ALPR Cameras in Richmond, California
Volunteers have reported 39 automated license plate readers in and around Richmond — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Deactivated
Richmond is on the record here. Richmond's police chief shut down the city's Flock system after discoving their data was unintentionally being shared nationwide.
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- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Richmond
The readers mapped around Richmond break down as 37 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Richmond Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Canal Boulevard — 6 readers
- Cutting Boulevard — 4 readers
- Harbour Way South — 4 readers
- Kaiser Shipyard 3 Trail — 3 readers
- Bay Trail — 2 readers
- South 23rd Street — 2 readers
- Carlson Boulevard — 2 readers
- Macdonald Avenue — 2 readers
- Ohio Avenue — 2 readers
- Anchor Point Drive — 1 reader
- West Cutting Boulevard — 1 reader
- Richmond Parkway — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Richmond — all on the live map above.
Richmond CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Richmond CA PD runs 188 cameras of its own, has logged 332 plate-database searches. Its network connects to 51 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: El Cerrito CA PD.
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 23 traffic. Operators named on the record: Richmond Police Department (18).
Camera activity around Richmond, last 30 days
7 newly reported, 7 removed in our hourly change log for Richmond. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching 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 Richmond — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Richmond (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Richmond
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Richmond, CA
- 7 license plate readers reported removed near Richmond, CA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Richmond, CA
- Richmond, CA: Cameras Deactivated
What you can do in 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 Richmond
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).